Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possible that even for a two dollar ticket there is no such demand for football games this year as there was in other years. Sports psychology from the standpoint of tickets is peculiar. There is feverish excitement and mad ticket hunting only when tickets are scarce. The Holy Cross game was an example of that last year. Three days in advance of the game 40,000 tickets had been sold. Seventeen thousand tickets were purchased between the Wednesday and Friday noons preceding the game. Notwithstanding the fact that announcement was made then that the game was sold out, there were...
...pocketbooks of prospective spectators. With all ramifications in mind, however, the method tentatively considered by the Harvard and Dartmouth associations this year seems to merit most emphasis. The grading of prices according to the desirability of location has long been an essential to profitable theater management. Through a popularity, peculiar to itself, football has been able to ride roughshod over this principle; but present conditions and the definite promise of more vacant concrete in the future make a change essential. Obviously, such an alteration cannot be accomplished this season, but the H.A.A. does well to give it prime consideration...
Such criticism must rest upon a failure to understand Mr. Smith's peculiar position in the east and especially in Massachusetts. In the Democrats of Massachusetts, his name inspires implicit confidence and blind discipleship; where he leads they follow. Mr. Smith is conscious that any prolonged appeal for Governor Roosevelt would fall on half-interested cars; what Massachusetts Democrats want to hear is the tale of '28, the tale of Republican bigotry, and hypocrisy, the tale of their unswerving loyalty. To recall to their minds his moral ascendancy, Mr. Smith has small need of polished periods, of intricate logic...
...those contests that have come to hold so large a place in American life. Whether or not inter-House or intramural sports will ever supplant them is a question. It is a question, however, that will not be answered immediately. The especial zest and flavor of excitement and interest peculiar to an intercollegiate contest will continue for some time to mean a great deal more to students and alumni, and spectators generally, than can possibly be the case with House athletic events. All things are possible and the future may bring radical changes. But for the present, and for some...
...Alfred E. Smith revealed another strong bid to keep himself in the public eye. He has taken over a magazine with a tradition of independent thought and allegiance to no group, political, religious, or financial; and has brought it back to prominence without, apparently, sacrificing these traditions. Yet the peculiar position of Smith and most of the other contributors points towards a more definite and more useful and than the magazine has previously shown...