Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundred miles away is Mt. Mitchell (6,711 ft.), highest peak east of the Rockies...
Dartmouth's proposal comes in the midst of the annual widespread reaction stressing the overemphasis of sports which always reaches its peak shortly after the football season has become history. Educators, seeking publicity, demand that athletic overemphasis be stopped and are quoted in headlines deriding sport commercialism, but the following autumn are again among those clamoring for seats on the fifty-yard line. This present agitation can well be put into this same category of ballyhoo reforms. College athletics are at present in a healthy condition and can hardly benefit by radical suggestions...
Furthermore, barring Seniors from participation in athletics would rob many a man of his banner year on the gridiron, rink, or diamond. Scholastic duties reach their peak in the Senior year of a man's college career but a student should then also be at his peak of maturity. If a man has not learned by his Senior year how to divide his time between sports and studies the chances are he never will...
...Harvard is being published this month in leaflet from. It will trace the club from its inception in 1902 as a chapter of the Intercollegiate Socialist Association, now the League for Industrial Democracy. Jack London and Upton Sinclair played a large part in the movement then. Socialism reached its peak here about 1910 when the membership of the chapter included such men as Heywood Broun '10, Walter Lippman '10, and Kenneth Macgowan '11. After that the organization weakened and, at the time of the war, disappeared completely. LaFollette's campaign for president in 1924 centered the attention of socialist...
...Steel's peak year was 1916 when net earnings were $333,574,178. Net revenues since then have been...