Word: needful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having seen the need for a spring sport which would attract some athletes and still be enjoyable when played "scrub", the Department of Physical Education has decided to inaugurate a new sport at Harvard. This game, speedball, will combine the best features of football, soccer, basketball, and hockey, and be as enjoyable as tag football or squash...
...been the policy of the athletic authorities to encourage any one sport at the expense of another. If football happens to be the form of athletic activity that the majority wishes to participate in, there is no reason for requiring them to enter some other field merely because it needs support. The aim of the Athletic Association is to offer an opportunity for those who wish to participate in sports to take part in whatever game they prefer. It is not that the best men be assigned to the activity most in need of them: but that they be allowed...
...commendable, and that the box-office approves of the show in syncopated measure, there must be some recourse other than that of this spring. The value of the Club that could give American premieres in the same season of plays by Goldoni and Capek has been immense. It need not descend to a stereotyped school day selection of classics performed a thousand times before; but the wise admixture of great drama of the past with the significant plays of the present in one season would keep a balance of interest and a constant high level of importance...
Since "collegiate" and its derivatives seemed to need a definition, Dean Gauss ventured: "To me it [collegiate] means nonsense, fiddle-faddle, bumptious social immaturity complicated sometimes but not always by acute class consciousness...
...Postal Telegraph (I.T.& T. subsidiary) are the two giants in the field. As President of the super-giant Western Union, Newcomb Carlton took up R.C.A.'s gage. Unimpressed by the wireless threat, he snapped: "The Radio Corporation has nothing we now wish to use, and if we ever need anything they have, we can get it from other sources. For the time being, at least, we will view the disposal of the Radio Corporation as an interesting scientific development...