Word: minority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significance. During the past month, the Bolshevik Government granted the same privileges to private traders as it was giving to State trusts, permitted long land leases to the peasants and allowed them, under minor restrictions, to hire labor, granted business men the right freely to engage in industry, proposed the suspension of State control of private banks (TIME...
...realm of sportsmanship little things count for much. The changing of the term "opponents" to the more genial "visitors" on the University's score boards is on the surface but a minor alteration, yet it helps to promote that atmosphere of gentlemanly rivalry which ought to distinguish all intercollegiate contests. While Dean Briggs was Chairman of the Athletic Committee it was ever his purpose to foster such a spirit; and this change is but one visible expression of his policy...
Dean Brigg's letter makes apparently but a minor change in facts, yet like the alteration of terms, it is an act of true sportsmanship. It reflects added credit on both Dean Briggs and Professor Barrett Wendell...
...almost impossible to herald the coming importance of one of Harvard's weakest minor sports without arousing, a great deal of skeptical protest. It is perhaps equally difficult to give lacrosse the serious consideration that it merits at present. But the game of lacrosse is rapidly ceasing to be such a colossal joke as many have thought it in the past. It commands the sympathy of a long suffering under...
Just now no athletic organization of minor importance is working quite so hard as the lacrosse team under a young and enthusiastic coach to live down ten years of universal contempt. On last Saturday it suddenly was brought to public attention by robbing Princeton of its annual victory, as the newspaper headlines so ironically...