Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...offset Johnson and Buell Holy Cross is relying on Wallingford, the only man on the Purple eleven who did not play against the University last fall. He was nursing a broken hand on that occasion, but later in the season starred as a line-plunger in the Boston College contest. Wallingford's generalship may prove the decisive factor in today's game. Coach O'Donnell does not grant that the University has gained a tremendous advantage over his eleven because of having been through one game already. He is confident that the Purple team will play well together in their...
...center Tierney will play his first game of the 1921 season. Tierney is in first class physical shape now and will need all his strength to offset Captain Gildea of Holy Cross, snap-back man on the Purple eleven. J. F. Brown '22 and Benoni Lockwood '22 will take the guard and tackle positions on the right side of the line...
...intention of returning to teaching, and proceeds to elaborate the reasons which make school teaching an unattractive profession. The chief difficulty is financial. The war and the accompanying business boom have undoubtedly been large influences, and the recent business slump and fall in prices may have in part offset the tendencies drawing men away from teaching. With the constant increase which is looked for in the net enrollment of our many universities, endowment campaigns can hardly provide a complete or lasting solution...
...National Security League announced yesterday that it would attempt to offset the influence of Socialist societies among college students and make a particular effort to counteract the influence of the Intercollegiate Liberal League, recently organized at Harvard by undergraduate representatives from twenty-seven colleges and universities...
...reputation of a college today depends first of all on its scholastic standard; to a lesser degree on its athletic prowess. A college is mistaken if it assumes that the glamor of gridiron victories will offset a mediocre scholastic standard. Intercollegiate athletics, however, are of such importance that, if it is an error to carry them to excess. It is also a fault to burden them unnecessarily with overfine restrictions. The rule, which makes ineligible for one year students transferring from some other institution, is just and fair, for it prevents men, who may not be able to pass...