Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hubbard and Eliot to Report...
...more liberal fixing of amateur standing is shown in the report by Harvard's Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports to President Lowell. On the other hand, the determination to exclude professionalism is not relaxed. Last Spring Yale, Princeton and Harvard agreed to take what was a step toward eliminating the professional coach. The head coach was to receive no more than $10,000 this year, $9,000 in 1926 and $8,000 thereafter. This resolution the report just published makes a point of approving, but it adds the proposal that all of the coaches be graduates as soon...
...surprise to learn that by the agreement of last Spring athletes were permitted to play baseball at Summer hotels where they were employed, while camp counselors might coach their charges without violating the eligibility rules. More advanced ground is taken theoretically in the matter of amateur standing in this report. It doubts whether a student earning his way through college should be forbidden to accept "a job in the Summer, just because it involves participation in a sport." The argument is made that there is little or no difference in the case of the man who "gets...
...Temple Sleep, thitherto participated in only by Mukalinda and his brides. A rebel arises in Manland, demanding shares for him and his wild fellows in the rite. The Light-Bearers themselves are infected with revolt and there is a year when the dedicated maidens have nothing to report of their sleep in the temple save pleasant dreams. The maidens smell fraud and burn the temple, whose flames signal a lusty and welcomed invasion from Manland. In the orgy of innocent rapine and surrender that follows, Phaon is pursued, somewhat to his distaste, by bands of ardent maenads, toward whom...
...this picture had its origin was unsuccessful. Possibly because the central character was a soldier blinded in the War, people were disinclined to favor it. It was, in any event, agreed to be an excellent play and has made an even more excellent movie. This blinded soldier fails to report to his fiancee his return to the land of the living, believing that she should not be tied for life to a broken anchor. Vilma Banky, Viennese blonde, and Ronald Colman play the parts. Miss Banky seems a singularly felicitous and decorative addition to the ranks of California celebrities...