Word: pre
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rowing, that an informal season with intramural competition will not attract a large number of candidates. If the athletic rulers wish to get the greatest numbers out, they must provide some intercollegiate meetings with our natural rivals no matter how much the season may be modified from the pre-war standards. If they will promise, on their side, to give us competition with other colleges, the undergraduates will promise in turn to conduct a sane and economical season, without neglect of military work, but rather with an increased interest in it. FRANCIS PARKMAN...
Since the outbreak of war, 18 educational institutions have had to discontinue athletics, 22 colleges out of 26 have eliminated pre-season coaching and 23 out of 26 have cut down their training-table. The three who continued the practice reduced the cost greatly...
...revolution must be a gradual one if we are to retain athletics on any extensive scale. The National Association, however, has now publicly recognized these faults and it proposes to deal with these at its next session. It will pass resolutions favoring, first, that there be no more pre-season coaching; second, that professional coaching be reduced to the minimum; third, that then number of official and their fees at intercollegiate games be kept as low as possible...
...soil. From our expert and trusted correspondents in Berlin we learn also that the German general staff has not included in its plan of war a campaign against Fitchburg, or an invasion into becastled Quincy. The home guards might well, so far as the Germans are concerned, enbalm their pre-Spanish war Springfields in a good quality of oil, and turn their energies to planting potatoes...
...commissioned officers must be approved by the Director General of the Department of Military Relief and will then be commissioned in the Red Cross and recommended to the Surgeon General of the Army for commission in the medical section of the Officers' Reserve Corps. The officers will wear the pre- scribed uniform and the subordinate personnel of the company will be entitled to the uniform and equipment issued by the United States to enlisted men of their various grades...