Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then follows a severe condemnation of the fair Cornellians who have caused the "degeneration" of the library, who have prevented a professor from entering his office by holding a "nose-powdering festival" on the threshold, and estranged the Metropolitan press by singing football songs on a New York ferry-boat. But this is not all. "Cornell is and always has been essentially not only a man's but a he-man's' school." If something is not done at once "Cornell will face an overthrow." That's the real danger an overthrow...
However, the victory was not without its price for Jenkins left the game with an injured knee, Kernan and Gates were taken out with dislocated shoulders, and C. Hubbard with a broken nose...
...prescribe "none but those who have worked their way through college." The one who goes to college enters or rather continues in an artificial environment. He becomes engrossed in student activities which have about as much connection with the real world as a wart on the end of the nose has with vision. The average college man defers and temporarily sacrifices that association with older people and that intimate contact with concrete issues which are absolutely essential in making a man out of boy stuff. He would be spared much of delay could he have a clear understanding...
...without its price, several of the first string men were retired with injuries of varying degree. Jenkins left the game with a bad knee, the seriousness of which has not been ascertained. Kernan and W. N. Gates both dislocated their shoulders, while C. Hubbard suffered a broken nose. Gates is the only one of this trio badly hurt, and may not play for the rest of the season...
...races were all fairly close, but the brush between 1923 B and 1922 B and the struggle between the Smith and Standish crews were particularly interesting. 1923 B managed to nose out its rival by a quarter of a length, while Smith just edged over the line inches in front of Smith in 6 minutes and 1 second, the fastest time of the day. Neither 1923 A or 1923 C reported in time for the race, though the former turned out to pace University A for a mile. The 1922 eight easily took the race for first class crews, defeating...