Word: oft
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...support of the oft recurring argument over the relative merits of western and eastern football, George Huff, athletic director at the University of Illinois, recently said to The Wake: 'I think the best eleven of the Big Ten for the last four or five years would have beaten the best eastern eleven. I do not mean decisively, but beaten it. By eastern eleven I also exclude those teams recruited by means no longer approved, but include Harvard, Yale, and Princeton...
Those who deplored the loss of the old courses and the letting down of the requirements that foreign literatures be studied will see in the new educational movement a vindication of their oft-expressed fears. But whether the fault be due to what they say it is or not, the colleges will do well to demand of those taking diplomas that they measure up to what the world expects of men and women who have had college opportunities...