Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: . . . Our students get a great kick out of reading TIME. It possesses more real news of interest to the students, and says things with more kick than any other news magazine we have found for our Library. But for God's sake leave out the "Fashion sheet" page.** My wife and I depend almost wholly on TIME for the general news of each week. You have a few critics of minor importance, but you have a host of admirers among whom are the best students in our school. V. M. ROGERS...
...said Mr. Milne's royalty, no one could call him a fussy man. Likewise with those simple souls who still enjoy football for the sake of football and not for the sake of the havoc it creates. They are not fussy, but the present trend leaves them bewildered. Where in the carnival should those three hours which once formed the be-all and end-all be placed." Stripped of their trappings crowds, stadia, bands, riots how do they rate...
...nothing if not heterogeneous. Stiff shirts are more to be seen a social events such as the gold digging activities of a blond girl, and an air of student poverty permeates the atmosphere. From all appearances Shakespeare seems still to be a good seller, and for Mr. Leiber's sake it is to be hoped that the indications do not believe the facts...
...where honor is due. No one denies that for the spectators the game is perhaps the most fascinating and thoroughly enjoyable of all athletic contests. Rhapsodies have been written about the tang of November twilights, the spirit of youth in friendly rivalry, the benefits of sport for sport's sake; and the fundamental theme is still as it always has been--true...
...possible that the hue and cry of the last two years which has placed football in the position of the evil genius of American colleges will make way for a finer appreciation of the game itself. Perhaps now sport for its own sake will be more than a phrase. If such is the case, if the game resumes its proper status--a national pastime and nothing more than a pastime--the battle will not have been in vain...