Word: maining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ambit of the book, like space, seems unconfined. The main part, however, is devoted to a vigorous defence of the author's character, which has been much maligned by the French for weakness in dealing with treachery behind the lines. He terms all such niaiserie "legends" and proves that sedition in the Army had been cured by his pill before Clémenceau came on the scene. Following up the attack, he says that it was he and not Clémenceau who ordered the arrest of the most notorious traitors, notably Bolo Pasha...
...main subject for general discussion will be "Faculty Control of Athletics." President J. R. Angell of Yale will make the principal speech on this topic. The advisability of sponsoring the visit to this country of a delegation of European college men will be considered. The object of the visit is to make a study of American college athletics. The case of the eligibility of C. W. Paddock, world's champion sprinter, will also be investigated. Paddock has been declared by the Amateur Athletic Association to be ineligible to represent the United States in the Paris Olympic Games...
...main speakers of the evening, Coach Knox and M. J. Logan '15, discussed the offensive and defensive methods used this season by outstanding Eastern elevens, notably Cornell and Notre Dame. At the next meeting, to be held soon after Christmas, moving pictures of the Princeton and Yale games will be shown...
...Union will give a Christmas dinner for all members in the main living room tonight at 6 o'clock...
...Corliss Lamont reports and deplores a fact of undergraduate life at Harvard which is also, probably, a fact in many other colleges. The men from private schools control most of the undergraduate activities. The men from the public schools are at the head only in study and scholarship, the main purpose, aside from the ecclesastical object of the more ancient foundations which our wise and pious ancestors and their descendants established and endowed...