Word: planning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...displaced polo as the great sport which attracts the crowds to the pageant. Although games between eastern and western teams have been held in various parts of the country, it was not until the New Year's festival of 1916 that the management first carried out the plan of having a football game in Pasadena between the best players of West and East. In that year the University of Washington defeated Brown by a 14 to 0 score, and the year after Oregon and Pennsylvania met and the former won by the same score...
...faced by Englishmen. Any suspicion of foreign interference would prejudice the hope of a settlement which, if it is to possess and retain its full virtue must be spontaneous." Clearly, a blundering recognition of one of the factions would be of no service in the formulation of an adequate plan...
...University's crew coaching staff are in favor of the plan and a number of discussions of the values of the different strokes now in use have been held this fall. Dr. Paul Withington '09, who acted in an advisory capacity during the fall season, is one of the strongest backers of the change and bases his arguments on the advantages of the English oarsmen in the Inter-Allied race at Paris last spring because of the use of a stroke which is practically standard throughout the British Isles...
...Roosevelt America League, for which a plan has been drawn up by a committee of the Roosevelt Memorial Association, consisting of Professor Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard; President MacCracken of Vassar; Dr. James Sullivan, New York State Historian; Mr. H. S. Weet, Superintendent of Schools of Rochester; Dr. Stephen P. Duggan, Director of the Institute of International Education; Mr. Hermann Hagedorn, Secretary of the Roosevelt Memorial Association, and myself, as chairman, calls for a co-ordination in the name of America and in the spirit of Roosevelt of the physical, intellectual and civic activities of the schools and colleges...
...With Roosevelt's balance of physical vigor, mental energy and civic responsibility as an example, the plan as we have drawn it up, stipulates, that the purpose of the organization shall be, in general, to stimulate in schools and colleges the appreciation of the balance of body, brain and spirit in the well-moulded man, and specifically, first, to help the feeble body to become strong; second, to encourage the eager mind to find expression; and third, in the spirit of Roosevelt's practical idealism, to develop intellectual patriotism and the understanding of the duties and opportunities of American citizenship...