Word: normal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great fanfare of the college football season is at an end. The last frantic exhortation of cheer-leaders has died away. Teams have disbanded and broken training. Players are once more men and fellow students. And as the fever passes, the delirium ends, and normal sanity returns. Now in cool and balanced judgment we can look at football and see it as it is. The spell is broken...
...sure, but that part against which least can be done directly in the way of remedy. The real offenders are the colleges themselves. Little by little, they have nourished, pampered, milk-fed their lusty infant until--lo! the child is stronger than the parent and threatens to reverse the normal order and rule the household...
...cabinet to relieve her of her financial difficulties. He has tried with a rigorous sincerity to escape financial failure by political finesse and such niceties of money juggling as would have pleased the intricate minds of a medieval. If the Government is to return to any degree of normal efficiency, two issues must the faced, namely, finance and politics. And, according to the present outlook, it is almost humanly impossible to face them both, for the Frenchman who has the sanity to face the financial issue finds his political position too insecure to execute his plans...
...capital to Florida this season are surpassing anything previously known. The southern state can be reached by automobile, by rail, by boat.Yet this does not seem to mitigate the traffic jam on the southern railroads. Waiting two weeks for Pullman accommodations to Florida is said to be the normal experience. Freight conditions are even worse. All summer most of the Florida lines have been running on full winter schedule, and now, with the advent of the real season for visiting Florida, freight piles up despite every effort of the railroads...
...normal rounding out of the formal education of the intelligent citizen, in an atmosphere of intellectual freedom and under adequate instructional inspiration and guidance; in preparation for effective participation as a responsible adult in the world in which he lives, in all ways as an intelligent active member in his community, his nation and the fellowship of nations. For going on with the task of self-understanding, self government, and self-development in the life that now is, and for the life that is to come. --John Palmer Gavit, "College...