Word: outspokenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University, culminating in proposals for the reform of football, recalls an issue which has been discussed for a full decade. Do athletics, especially intercollegiate athletics, promote or hinder the cause of education? President W. T. Foster of the Reed College at Portland, Oregon, has been one of the most outspoken in condemnation of what he calls "exaggerated emphasis" on college sports. He asks our attention to "the weaklings among the undergraduates who spend their hours in cheering a football hero and their money in betting on him, while the man of highest achievement in scholarship is either ignored or condemned...
...Colonel George Harvey, onetime outspoken ambassador to the Court of St. James's, was a weekend guest at White Court. An habitual flouter of customs, the Colonel was the first guest this summer who has preferred the sun and beach to attending church with the President. He smiled his excuses, said he had some letters to write...
...alumni are in close enough contact with University affairs ever to know all the facts. As a result the College's reputation has been smirched from time to time by the outspoken opinion of alumni who have had no way of checking up on things, and are yet represented as authorities by the press. The Committee on Relations with the Alumni seems the very cure for all this doubt and misapprehension...
Arms Parley. A decision by the U. S. Government to attend the League's conference on the control of arms and munitions of war* was read to the Council and received with outspoken satisfaction. It was then decided to call the conference...
...identification of their colleague with "the out spoken purpose of the Roman Church." Ralph Adams Cram, Boston architect, Protestant, wrote to Mr. Chapman: "Will you . . . state explicitly where and when the Roman curia, or any other official body of the Roman Catholic Church, has declared it to be its 'outspoken purpose' to control American education? . . . I do formally challenge you to show cause for making your amazing statement. For my own part, I deny it explicitly...