Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yesterday's whirlwind demonstration at the Polo Grounds against Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was typical of the American mob in its most blind and unreasoning mood. Under authority vested in them by the rules of big league baseball, the umpires have the power to call a game on account of darkness, and acting under this authority the umpires called the second game in the World's Series, when the score stood three all at the end of the tenth inning. Darkness was falling fast, and in the opinion of the umpires a continuance of play for another inning was impossible...
...could be followed by you and the Yale and Princeton papers by making football relatively less important to other college activities. I firmly believe more could be accomplished this way for it is the newspapers which stir up public opinion, and it is the newspapers which have made this mountain out of what virtually is a molehill...
...program of the conference includes arrangements for recreation and exercise for the delegates, such as baseball, tennis, track, swimming and mountain climbing. The mornings will be occupied by discussion groups and platform meetings, but the afternoons will be given over to the sports mentioned above...
...evening with athletic recreation in the afternoon. The athletic program will include a baseball series, a tennis tournament, and a track meet in which teams representing the various colleges will compete. For those who do not care for organized athletics there will be plenty of opportunity for swimming and mountain climbing...
Silver Bay, situated on Lake George in the northern part of New York State, is well fitted for a conference of this sort. It is in the heart of the mountain and lake district of the Adirondacks, amidst scenery that is among the finest in the Eastern United States. It includes 1600 acres of land, with over 70 buildings especially constructed for conference purposes, including an auditorium accommodating 1000 people and a dining hall that will seat 450. In addition there are ten smaller buildings with a capacity of from 50 to 200 persons apiece, that will be used...