Word: pre
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yesterday's pre-game signal practice and dummy scrimmage Coach Fisher sent Fitts back from end to halfback. On account of his recent injury Gehrke's physical condition does not make it certain that he will be able to play through the entire contest this afternoon. If needed, Fitts will be available to take his place in the backfield. He has still much to learn at his new end position and Coach Fisher will probably not risk putting him in at wing today...
...sort of illicit eagerness, by many who in the days of freedom passed it by. It may even be said that some are drinking to a hurtful extent for no better reason than to "prove that they can get it." Drinking is common at dancing parties where in pre-amendment days it was never thought of. It is offered by boys, in dark corners, to other boys. A larger proportion of hard liquor is in circulation than ever before. Though saloons are no longer open, the enforcement of the law seems to be a little better than a farce...
...scoffing at the college man and his conceit is now almost as frequent as it was then. After the war for not inexplicable reasons the press temporarily conceded that University training might be of some use after all. Now they are beating out the old refrain again with pre-war vigor...
...Field, will probably present almost as strong an opposition as the Scrubs met in the game with St. John's Preparatory School earlier in the season; Wentworth has played four games to date, winning three. In its first contest it gained seventeen runs to ten scored by the Tufts Pre-Medical School, and in the next won a 17-4 game over the M. I. T. Freshmen. Its only defeat was administered by Cushing Academy, but it came back strong in the next game, piling up seventeen tallies to four for Tufts...
There are, then, many excellent reasons for giving college credit for participation in activities and for making such credit a pre-requisite for graduation. The underlying theory is sound, and the practical results are evident. It would be interesting to see a trial of the system. --The Brown Herald...