Word: regardless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supreme purpose of a college is to develop minds and character; it is not a farm club for professional sports, in theory anyway. Sports in college, therefore, is a diversion engaged in without animosity or dirty playing, regardless of talent. Economically favoring the athlete is prostituting that purpose. What about the boy who is refused admittance because of athlete preference? I knew a high school boy who got polio right after he was picked as the best baseball player in the diocese of Brooklyn. At least 6 feet tall, his body was conspicuously atrophied. To pick an athlete in preference...
...Cominform sent out another new message: all Communists should help set up forthwith a sweeping united front for "peace," cooperating with nearly all elements of the people, "regardless of politics."* A significant overtone gave a clue to what most worried the Cominform in the West: "Special attention should be given to the masses of Catholic workers and their organizations, bearing in mind that religious convictions do not constitute a bar to the unity of workers, especially when such unity is required to save peace...
...Regardless of their shins and pates, The bravest seiz'd the butter-plates, And rushing headlong to the van, Sustained the conflict...
...rules. The Dean's Office has suggested one set of rules. The Student Council, after a year and a half of deliberation about the Dean's Office's proposals has come up with a set of its own, differing from the first more in organization than in content. Regardless of which set gets the final nod, the rules will be long, they will be detailed, and they will mirror the policy of the last three years, during which undergraduate activities have been subjected to far more supervision and restriction than ever before in the history of Harvard College...
...does that game lead most of the Sunday sports sections the following day? Why does the Yale game count twice as much as any other game toward earning a letter? Why are the Harvard-Princeton and the Harvard-Yale games the only ones which undergraduates and alumni always attend regardless of price or team records? The Big Three rivalry is hardly meaningless, even though the national title is no longer at stake...