Word: par
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...successful in making a popular appeal, professional football will deal a heavy blow at the spirit which has made football almost unique among college sports. Football has obtained its position as the college sport par excellence largely because of its freedom from the taint of commercialism. By nature a rough, and at times a brutal game, football is never theless dominated by the amateur spirit, and the thousands of boys and young men who play it in our schools and colleges do it for love of the game, and not from any ulterior consideration of future gain. The springing...
...free opportunity for all students in the University to begin an acquaintanceship, at any rate, with standard works of classic and modern musical literature. The feeling was that no one should claim to be a cultivated man of letters unless his general knowledge of music was somewhat on a par with that which is reasonably taken for granted by the world in such other arts as poetry, prose, painting, and architecture. To this end the alumni subscribe each year a thousand dollars and more so that the expositions may be of the highest order of excellence in having the music...
...must inevitable make. Whether we believe in President Wilson's ideals, or whether we think him and impractical dreamer, it should to our work first to study the facts, and then top speak out. We can not disregard the document; it is up to us to play our par, to criticize, and to condemn or praise...
...baseball team will close its season today at New Haven against the Eli yearlings. Until last week against Princeton 1921 the Freshmen had had a successful season, winning the majority of their games. In the encounter with the Tiger team, which won 6 to 2, the pitching was below par...
...Trustees of the University in adopting the new military plan for next year at the same time arranged for a course in naval subjects which promises to be on a par with that of the Ensign schools at Harvard and elsewhere. The courses themselves, which will count toward a degree, are modelled chiefly on the plan of instruction as followed in the Officer's School at Wissahickon Barracks, extremely comprehensive, supplemented by drill and practical training, and finishing with a cruise of ten days for intensive practice of a term's theory...