Word: priore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those days, which are commonly designated as the "good old" days, and include everything prior to 1870, it was possible for a gallant gentlemen to clap on his gold-laced hat--if he happened to live at the proper period for gold-laced hats--dangle his trusty rapier at his belt and set off for Paris on his faithful and intelligent steed with few misgivings about the future as long as he kept his rapier and his wits well sharpened. At an even earlier date, it was customary to rove over most of Europe in search of chance combats which...
...Geer has investigated the situation scientifically. At the annual conference on December 29 at Atlanta, Georgia, he announced the results of his investigations. He gave figures showing the percentage of deaths among the 528 "H" men in rowing football, baseball, and track who were engaged in competition prior to 1900. These he compared with the figures for the average young man accepted for life insurance over the same period. His statistics, limited though they are to Harvard University alone, give fairly conclusive proof that the average college athlete has a higher life expectancy than the average young man accepted...
...research is admittedly too limited for very definite conclusions. He has, however, given the impetus to an investigation which will doubtless produce most illuminating results. The statistics contemplated by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company will take in seven or eight leading colleges over a period of twenty-five years prior to 1905. If these statistics substantiate those of Mr. Geer, the charges against intercollegiate competition as detrimental to its participants should be quieted, and the tendency toward the so-called athletic heart should be reduced to a myth...
...infallibility of the Bible developed a quantity of material deserving scrutiny. Dr. Straton, who was upholding the Fundamentalist Side, lost track of just what he was trying to prove and subsequently lost the debate; but as the judges very properly observed in their announcement, the two clergymen had failed prior to the encounter to agree upon a definition of "infallibility very liberally, and relied chiefly on fulfilled prophecies and the vitality of the Bible under adverse circumstances to prove his case. Dr. Potter, on the other hand, went after specific phrases and historical facts, and showed fairly convincingly that word...
...Prior to the Volstead act the colleges had their own code regarding drink. It was forbidden to bring intoxicants into university buildings. Drunkenness, if public, was "conduct unbecoming a scholar and a gentleman." Moreover, the man who was publicly intoxicated lost caste with his fellows. They made a nice distinction between the celebration of football victories, club elections and the like, and real addiction to drink. This state of affairs was the culmination of fifty years of growing moderation. The old days when the few men were drunkards, and the many teetotalers were yielding to an almost European practice...