Word: philadelphians
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Class A includes the more important and more exacting offices:-managers of the four major sport teams, Chairman and Business Manager of the Princeton-fan, Chairman of the Undergraduate Schools Committee, President of the Philadelphian Society, and Chairman of the Press Club...
...Soccer is a fine game, a good game in itself and valuable in the influence it exerts in bringing into athletic competition boys who would otherwise have no intercollegiate sport medium. The writer confesses to a lack of knowledge concerning the finer points of the game, but a Philadelphian--the home of soccer--has thus set down his impressions of the various teams of the Intercollegiate League; Pennsylvania he says, was the most adept, showing a greater knowledge of the game and playing it with a higher degree of skill than any of the other teams...
...course, philanthropy does involve sacrifice of some sort; of course, social service will take time that might be more selfishly spent. These must be the drawbacks that Harvard is aiming to obviate by placing a premium upon personal advancement--a most excellent plan; but the Philadelphian Society and the Town Club are nevertheless to be commended for their superannuated conservatism...