Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about this handicapping of distant candidates. Often the members of obscure high schools become interested in entering as Eastern college only late in their secondary course. A lack of friends and relatives with a background of collegiate experience makes it difficult to arrive at a decision that is a matter of natural sequence of boys brought up in closer touch with University traditions. As a result, the old plan of examination is out of the question and as a matter of fact seldom employed by this class of applicant as for the new plan of entrance, the lengthy reviews necessary...
...given out, followed by a dummy scrimmage and signal drill comprised the general outline of the workout. The nature of the plays and the personnel of team A, besides the injury list, was kept under cover. Whether this is an indication that some change is being contemplated is a matter for conjecture...
...Boston Evening Transcript has recently pointed to the dangers which are contained in "battle of the goal posts". So far the rightful title to this equipment has been left undecided by the Judicial bodies of the nation and weekly it is necessary to resort to force to decide this matter. The theory that the victorious institution deserves the goal posts of the opposition has the apparent support of a physically aggressive minority, but traditional precedent and established property rights do not support this view. Only within the present decade has vandalism followed victory. Even in the days of mass plays...
...Howard: "The plain truth of the matter, plus a sportsmanlike desire to give credit where credit is due, compels the frank admission that after having been afforded two years' opportunity to judge of a result which had involved the employment of much ingenuity and the expenditure of several million dollars, an overwhelming majority of the people of Denver and the adjacent newspaper field continued their preference for the type of evening paper produced by F. G. Bonfils in the Evening Post, rather than for the type offered by Scripps-Howard in the Evening News. ... On the other hand...
...acted" a gallant knight outnumbered and surrounded by ruffians, but Sophie of the flaming red pigtails had caught him at it, and all her life she tried to reconcile that adventurous romantic spirit with the David, right hand man at the bank, David, beloved servant of the community, David, matter-of-course slave to his relatives. "Perhaps Davey will see his way clear to ..." send a bespectacled niece to finishing school, house a carping old-maid cousin, finance the whims and mistresses of a charming but debauched artist brother. Sophie married Davey out of her need...