Word: pyre
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died: Musammat Rukka, 25, widow of Ganga Din Ahir, 28, Italy, India. She committed suttee on the funeral pyre of her husband...
Professor F. J. A. Pyre of Wisconsin State University, himself an old football player, sounded a serious note of warning that college sport is approaching that same dangerous position which resulted in nation-wide curtailment fifteen years ago. He named overintensification in sport and the dangers of contamination from professional methods as likely to leave the college with mammoth stadiums, built in the present period of enthusiasm, but desolate a few years hence, if college faculties decide that the primary purpose of colleges is education and not athletics. He pointed out that the present craze for athletics, if not guarded...