Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obstacle which prevents the immediate trial of this idea is the difficulty in arranging for intercollegiate competition. Under our present system of intercollegiate contact it would be a number of years before Harvard could arrange a full schedule for a light weight eleven if it decided to have one. Time would have to be taken to bring the new idea to the attention of other colleges and more time would have to go by while they were considering it. If, on the other hand, there existed today some athletic conference made up of New England colleges, the whole matter could...
...present the crews are engaging in short light workouts with individual instruction as the main feature of the practice...
...present a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, having spent his student days at Balliol, and a period as tutor at Corpus Christi. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, and since 1918 he has been Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire...
Sooner or later the college athletic associations which subscribe to the principle of athletics for all will provide the opportunity to play football for the little fellows. Under the present system, average players of small size give up the game in droves after entering college...
...adolescent's joy in life. Addressing the students of Columbia at the formal opening of its one hundred and seventy-sixth year, Dr. Butler reminded them of the gruelling entrance tests of fifty years ago. He was frank enough to say that not only could no member of the present student body meet those tests, but that no member of its faculty could. That does not mean that the human brain is no longer able to grasp such erudition. It is merely a comment on the changing standards...