Word: parte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contemporary writer has been going around to find if the rah-rah stuff is fading out of college sports. He finds that it is. Well, perhaps the enthusiasm in the stands "ain't what it used to be," but that does not mean that a supreme effort on the part of Captain Reid's team would not be appreciated in a quiet manner by the present-day undergraduates. On paper the die is cast against Harvard; on the cinders, in the shot, discuss and hammer circles and in the jumping and vaulting pits the story may be something else again...
Among the archaisms that grow green each year in the kindly air of Harvard none is more strange than that curious one--the Commencement part. The custom of having a few of the leaders in the graduating class address the Commencement gathering on almost any subject, from What is Wrong with the World to May Four Years in College, is an ancient one, and used to bring out enthusiastic competition for the honor. But for the past few years there has been a reluctance of Seniors to say any more in the Commencement ceremonies than is necessary, and the invitations...
Much of the mumbo-jumbo ritual that used to delight the world of the universities has disappeared; part of it has died a natural death, part has been deliberately discarded. There are some aspects of it which will in all probability remain as long as the colleges do, for the human attachment to ceremony is strong. Commencement crowds look for a certain amount if it, but in a university where oratory has generally sunk so low in undergraduate favor, it would seem that if unwilling Seniors must still speak at their graduation, the audience might be given the choice...
Dean Miner's report in part follows...
...more important the class teams. During the past season this latter group were allowed but two practice sessions of an hour each every week. Men having other engagements at these times were of course barred from any participation in class basketball, and the interest of those who did take part was kept at a minimum by the meagre time allotted to them. Those in charge of this phase of the situation estimate that many men who began the season with enthusiasm soon withdrew when they found how little opportunity was allowed them for keeping in condition, let alone improving their...