Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Editors of the CRIMSON: I am one of a great number of alumni who deplore the destruction of the goal posts after a victory in the modern way and I should like to suggest that it is quite possible to build goal posts, which will resist the enthusiasts after a game. A grillage of channel beams with steel gussets riveted to the up fights would serve. With engineering in the place of good manners we could have the old march under the goal posts which used to finish the games so handsomely. Kenneth Conant...
Come to think of it that was all it was supposed to be in the first place. Those who have been insisting that the ballyhoo and the hysteria in connection with modern intercollegiate football have destroyed all sense of proportion should applaud the attitude of the Yale undergraduate but before and during this game. Certainly the telling was that it was just a football game merely that and nothing more...
...first editions by her with an "i," thus reflecting the wide popularity Mrs. Sidgwick holds in England. Closely related to the Bensons (A. C. and E. F.), she belongs to a literary tradition of quiet humor, leisurely manner (461 close-packed pages to the present volume, the average modern novel boasting some leaded 300). Her particular knack is to vivify a biggish assortment of characters in their intricate interchange of much talk and suppressed British emotion...
...quite probably support the opinion that to bring Philosophy to Main Street is not entirely to be regretted. And in doing so Dewey has not soiled the purity of intellectual emotion,--merely strained off the soporific wanderings of contemporary philosophy to bring to light certain basic principles common to modern civilization. Values and standards have been the chief concern of philosophy, he maintains, but the standards by which most of us judge values are based on the contemplative tradition and "the elements of that tradition are so far removed from the actualities of modern life that we are almost wholly...
Professor F. P. Magoun '16 will speak on "Football in Medieval England" at a Modern Language Conference in the Common Room of Conant hall at 8 o'clock this evening...