Word: sayed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...future unless the undergraduate body in general has completely ignored the snags which are so liable to rise in the path of any team undertaking a schedule such as Harvard's. If passing comments heard around Cambridge may be taken as indicative of undergraduate attitude, it is safe to say that the optimism which prevails around these parts, far from bordering on the hysterical, is rather one of hope. And it should remain in this healthy state...
...press who are covering Harvard football may once again lapse temporarily back into the even tenor of their ways. Not for some time have the University coaches had such a promising array of ball-carriers from which to choose a couple of versatile quartets. But it is safe to say that those who answer the referees starting whistle tomorrow may well be forced to give way to certain Crimson-jerseyed aspirants now close on their heels before the fall campaign advances much further...
...reason for this is fairly obvious to any one who stops to consider the function which pro tennis performs and compare it with the function of say boxing or baseball. The last two named serve only one purpose as professional sports and that is to amuse the spectator. Pro tennis on the other hand like pro golf has for its primary purpose the instruction of those who desire to learn the game so that they can play it themselves. Just why the stigma commonly associated with professionalism should attach to such an unquestionably worthy end is a mystery, but fortunately...
...authorities have sacrificed scholarship, they have added to the adolescent's joy in life. Addressing the students of Columbia at the formal opening of its one hundred and seventy-sixth year, Dr. Butler reminded them of the gruelling entrance tests of fifty years ago. He was frank enough to say that not only could no member of the present student body meet those tests, but that no member of its faculty could. That does not mean that the human brain is no longer able to grasp such erudition. It is merely a comment on the changing standards...
...undergraduates are practically unanimous in the opinion that President Angell's views are absurd!"--"Harvard, Radcliffe, and Wellesley had plenty to say on the subject of college week ends, and most of it was neither complimentary or kind to President James Rowland Angell...