Word: pros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...former clash between the Crimson and the pros, the Bruins won by a 3 to 2 score in a fast game...
...mass meeting to discuss the pros and cons of Prohibition and the merits and weaknesses of the Harvard Debating Council's plan for Prohibition reform will be held in the Large Living Room of the Union tomorrow night. T. N. Carver, Wells Professor of Political Economy, widely known both as an economist and as a supporter of the dry cause, has consented to participate in the discussion from the prohibitionists' point of view, while Alexander Lincoln '95, former Assistant Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and at present general counsel for the Constitutional Liberties League, will present...
...adopt. A couple of months ago when college sextets were preparing for their winter campaigns, New England coaches and officials assembled to discuss just such changes, but the idea was dismissed until another season and those gathered in solemn conclave concentrated on the problem of rule interpretation. Both--the pros and amateurs sought to bring about a faster, more open game this winter; the former did so with the adoption of the new off-side and anti-defense rules, while the latter aimed at the same goal by means of a better interpretation of the rules. But the unqualified success...
...tough spot. Obviously that is highly undesirable. Some say, furthermore, that the players would lose their love for the game if they performed under such tiring conditions, and they are on the ice for their own pleasure, decidedly not for that of the spectators, as are the pros...
Andover has its "smoking pro" Wellesley has its "social pro", Princeton its "automobile pro." Illinois and Stanford have their football pros; but Harvard has a stellar galaxy; varying in kind and degree, the undergraduate treads a precarious way through the maze of academic, language, and athletic probations; the student counterpart of the notorious absent-minded professor finds himself enmeshed in cut pro; medicine balls and Henienway gymnasium are the usual compulsory exercise for the lackadaisical Freshman. Even dogs in the dormitory prove a stumbling block for the unwary...