Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years Harvard has had all election complex. Either the lower classmen are submitted to the boredom of the perfunctory process of raising the necessary sixty per cent, or the Seniors are worked up to a nervous pitch in the effort to pay just and final honors to this or that candidate who has shown his worth throughout his college career. Indifference and over-emphasis are unhappy extremes, but luckily traditional indifference in the lower class elections can do no serious damage. If classes want to spend several days drumming up enough votes to elect nominal officers no real harm...
...37th green at Flossmoor (Chicago) last summer (TIME, Oct. 1) discussion has sizzled. After intensive investigation the U. S. G. A. decided to retain the present ruling, arguing that the stymie's abolition would eliminate "what many believe to be the finest shot in golf, the short pitch into the hole...
American Literature, writes this very modern Englishman, like the Russian has come to a real verge. "The furthest frenzies of the French modernism or futurism have not reached the pitch of extreme consciousness that Poe, Melville, Hawthorne, Whitman reached." These Americans "refuse everything explicit and always put up a sort of double meaning. They revel in subterfuge. They prefer their truth safely swaddled in an ark of bulrushes, and deposited among the reeds until some friendly Egyptian princess comes to rescue the babe." Needless to say, Mr. Lawrence will play the kind-hearted daughter of Pharach to rescue the infant...
...long as football requires the utmost of its men, even throwing a tiring and wounded player into a situation where he must toss away the last of his vitality in one superb rush, the game cannot reach its highest pitch as a professional sport. Coach Stagg is right in opposing questionable tactics in playing the game, but one doubts if professional football is so powerful a menace as he fears. N. Y. WORKI
...education is not something to be driven into anyone's head, and nobody can be forced to work hard unless his interest is aroused to the necessary pitch. Raising the standard of scholarship is mistaking the real cause, for scholarship is not the sole ingredient of an education. Since to the true student all life is an education, knowledge is to be acquired both inside the classroom and out. When all angles of college life are made an adventure, the four years will become the privilege of doing hard but interesting and valuable labor...