Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...general adoption of a laxer attitude on the part of school and college authorities would unquestionably give rise to the growth of a class of pseudo students whose only aim in going to a large institution would be to compete in athletics as long as they could stay, and then, reputation earned, to find employment, athletic or otherwise, on the basis...
...have descended upon Soldiers Field and for the past few Saturdays they have been climbing the surrounding fence in rather concentrated doses. With a respectable amount of indifference, the Athletic Association has reserved a group of small, wire pens for the convenience and residence of these unexpected guests as long as they choose to remain on the field. The inmates do not seem to be more than ordinarily annoyed, and the space serves no other purpose at that specific time. The only difficulty seems to be with the legitimate spectators...
...yard stripe, where he received a punt, to the 4-yard line, whence Sutton went over for the score. The Crimson reversed the order of things in the second period. B. Ticknor, after catching a Green dropkick, advanced to Harvard's 40-yard line; Potter hurled a long forward to O'Connell and a 15-yard penalty put the ball in position for Devens to smash through for a tally...
...With regard to any possible objection of the United States to the forming of such a league, there should not be one. Yet, as long ago as 1890, such an idea was suggested with the avowed purpose of opposing this country from an economic standpoint." Although there would in all probability be no hostility to the United States in the formation of such a league, were it practicable, such hostility would be very likely to develop, owing to the natural trade competition that would spring...
...first details of the operation of the House Plan at Yale and Harvard become established a sharp contrast distinguishes the two experiments. It is a contrast which throws two concepts of the university into clear relief. The class has long been the medium through which Yale reached her sons; perhaps, then, it was to be expected that the House Plan in New Haven would follow tradition and develop around the class and not, as at Harvard, through the college itself...