Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Princeton's Development Rapid...
...Cowen, who has not been practicing since the Maine game on account of a muscle injury, was again on the field yesterday, but did not get into the line-up of either of the University teams. Mills, who has been taking his place at left guard, has made such rapid progress in overcoming the handicap of inexperience and has shown such strength on the line, that Cowen will have a hard time recovering his old position. Mills played on Team A yesterday...
...country is going to the dogs; but I for one don't see it! Obviously, and for reasons not far to seek, the world in general, even. Oxford as a sequestered part of it, is now passing through a phase of transition,--it is a period of rapid as well as far-reaching readjustment to meet fast changing conditions; and, naturally, it is not altogether pleasant for a man more or less adjusted, to things as they were 'befo' the waw' to see how the change is working out for the better. But for myself, I make it a rule...
...more rapid democratizing of our American higher education is the inevitable result of the trend of American life; but don't for a moment imagine that Oxford and Cambridge will remain forever secure in their traditions. The English are more conservative than we, and their traditions are deeper-rooted than ours. Consequently their universities are enjoying, or at any rate having, a longer immunity from the sweep and rush of modern conditions. But they will succumb! Slowly but irresistibly the change will be wrought, and Oxford and Cambridge will be offering their graduate course in business, their higher instruction...
...field meeting of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America attracts instead of seven, twenty-seven colleges sending in over twelve hundred entries. The men come from every part of the country and this year the west is unusually prominent. Nothing could demonstrate more clearly than this the rapid progress and development of intercollegiate athletics in the last few years unless indeed, it be the fact that no less than 18 of the 23 present records have been made or equalled since...