Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Business prophets have spoken both optimistically and pessimistically at the year's opening, and as usual the future remains obscure to the average business man. Current business is good; none except the anthracite miners and a few others question that statement. The real interest in business relates to how long the present prosperity will last...
...York City, January 24--The Carnegle Foundation of Teaching has undertaken this year a thorough going investigation of the place that football at present occupies in the intercollegiate world. This move follows the general interest in the question aroused after the close of the football season last fall...
...cannot be forecast, but it is thought not unlikely that their report will touch upon and perhaps propose remedies for certain practices that have already been much discussed. These include the present emphasis by student bodies and the public upon football, scouting, proselytzing, coaching from the side lines, the question of professional football and baseball, paid coaching, and a tendency to treat the whole matter more as a business than a sport...
...question of scouting has its propo- nents and its opponents also. Coach Roper of Princeton denounces it. Others defend it as practiced today, since there is no secrecy about the presence of a rival representative...
Highly paid coaching has long been a moot question and probably will receive about as much attention from the Carnegie Foundation as any that will be considered. On this subject the Carnegie Foundation has expressed itself before. A survey made in the South, which was covered in the Foundation's report issued in 1924, declared that the "athletic coach, and in particular the football coach, sets the standard of the whole system of intercollegiate sports and is responsible for many of its most demoralizing features. It recommends that the coach should be a member of the Faculty, employed...