Word: namely
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Today, coaches call The Crimson telling us whose picture to run and how big to play the story. Athletes come in and demand big, uncritical stories, and they refuse to talk to reporters if their name hasn't been in the paper enough. What happened to competing simply for the joy of it? What happened to Danny Jiggetts...
...riots. The way in which the Israeli consulate in Iran was ransacked recently adds to my concern. When all this evidence is added up, what other conclusion can one come to? Are we willing to wait? What are the alternative measures of action? Most importantly, does anybody really care? Name withheld by request
...comes from Louisville, Ky. but can name you more old Chicago Cub stars than practically any Wrigley Field bleacher...
Master Vogt is a tenured university professor. Joe Restic is a football coach. Vogt signed his name, and the academic prestige of his title, to a course on the Thought of Joe Restic on how to win at football. And 20 students at Harvard University are enrolled in this course for academic credit. Shocking though this might seem to the uninitiated academic, our scenario is not inconsistent with the logic of recent tendencies at this university. Suffice it to mention two related phenomena: (1) the clamoring over-subscription of famous "gut" courses: and (2) the top-heavy enlistment...
...courses on Astrology, on Sooth-saying, and on Winning-at-Checkers. Let us follow in the footsteps of Master Vogt, abdicate from our quaint conceptions of intellectual obligation, and capitulate spinelessly to every rebellious whim of newly-pubescent adolescents who wish to pursue nonsense in the name of knowledge. Let us heed the words of Mr. Restic, who cautions us that "You won't begin to cover the multiflex in one semester," and so let us in all haste fire our existing faculty and offer tenure to the valiant young men of the Harvard football team; let us replace...