Word: neutralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Michigain Daily, commenting on the choice of a neutral party to select officials for the Harvard-Yale football game, says that this step, coupled with such a one as the formation in recent years of an eastern basketball league, "shows a tendency towards a single goal-an eastern conference". Such an organization would, according to the Daily, perform the same function as the Big Ten Conference; its power would eventually become as great and its unity as strong...
...Yale athletic heads and the feeling of friendly rivalry between the traditional opponents has in large measure permitted the athletic relations of each with other colleges. The agreement announced last night whereby the choice of officials for the annual Harvard Yale football game will be entrusted to a neutral party is therefore, not only commendable in itself, but equally praiseworthy as an example which might quite logically be followed by all Eastern colleges. A similar arrangement has been instituted with success in the "Big Ten" Association, and whereas the present system here has not resulted in a recognized evil...
...expected that Dartmouth will sanction this new agreement between Harvard and Yale and will perhaps join with them in having a neutral individual, no relation to either participant, choose the officials for all the big games If Dartmouth agrees to join Harvard and Yale Langford will no doubt be the man she will allow to choose the officials for football games with major eastern rivals...
From the accounts in the News it was seen that the President had not stepped out of his characteristically neutral attitude on all things to "assail" or "rebuke" anyone, but had discussed the U. S. press objectively, hypothetically, giving as much emphasis to his disapproval of too great nationalism therein as to his strictness on lack of patriotism...
During the first week after the vacation, a triangular debate will be held between sections 8, 14, and 17, on the subject, "Resolved: That this house favors the nomination of Calvin Coolidge for another term as President of the United States". Three students of neutral sections will judge, and one student from a neutral section, will preside...