Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...institutions of college rank, limits its athletes to three years of collegiate competition. The Army allows members of its three upper classes? to play irrespective of varsity experience a cadet may have had before reaching West Point. The Navy thought the Army ought to conform with the general rule. The Army thought the Navy was complaining because it had been beaten by Army so often lately...
...conference Admiral Robison, conciliatory, made three proposals: 1) gradual adoption of the three-year rule by the Military Academy; or 2) a four-year limit for West Point athletes; or 3) alternately playing two years under the West Point rule, two years under the Annapolis rule...
...What you're trying to get is parity, not eligibility," countered General Smith. "No school but Annapolis objects to our eligibility rule. . . . Army trusts Navy and feels hurt. ... I refuse to compromise on a principle...
Said Secretary of War James William Good: "Forty-four percent of the 1,200 students at West Point have attended some other college or university. . . . Under the three-year rule, West Point would not have a student body from which it could muster a first class team and would be unable to play large universities like Yale, Harvard, Notre Dame, Illinois...
...Soviet Union is the strongest believer on the globe in international unification. The Russian idea, however, is not at all a world federation, but a world Soviet which, if the present government of Russia is an example, means a world dictatorship in the hands of the men who now rule the Soviet Union...