Word: secret
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...withholding the means of their becoming acquainted with our language and institutions. Employers have often found that ignorant foreign labor was cheaper than American labor. Through this indifference of ours to the process of naturalization arose a large part of the trouble which the Department of Justice and the Secret Service have had with the "hyphenated Americans" during...
Personal sacrifice gives vigor to an university. The trick of professional dignity lies in the secret of poverty, which ensures, among discriminating people, simplicity and refinement. The distinction of frugality is the scholar's bulwark: raise it, and he is at the mercy of the horrid monotony of capitalist vulgarity. A professor is admitted to polite society not by dint of theatre parties and champagne, but simply because bourgeoisie and Philistines are in mortal terror of his intellect. Money-grubbers and little-brothers-to-the-rich feel in his indigence a power which deprives them of breath. It is part...
...former customs which has been the object of much attack by the so-called athletic reformers, is secret practice. This is, in reality, absolutely necessary. A game is no game, if the other side knows all the moves. The fear of the unexpected is what constitutes interest. It also serves the purpose of keeping the student body from spending its afternoons on the Stadium tiers when each man should be engaged in some form of exercise. Secret practice in itself is harmless. It is only the agitators who call it semi-professionalism and against the spirit of fair play...
Further specifications were these: Dual track meets with the University and Princeton; no secret practice, no scouting, keeping the field and bowl open Sundays and the employment of seasonal coaches to assist the director of athletics. This last point has been much discussed and there has been a great deal of talk about abolishing seasonal coaches. Dean Briggs was especially in favor of this...
...gentleman's agreement that secret emissaries will not be sent forth to spy out each other's tactics and signals is highly desirable. This done there will be no need for practice behind closed gates during the final weeks of any football season. Let the game be one of friendly rivalry and enjoyment in sport, and not one with intricate under-cover ramifications to detect the opponent's weak points. Let that remain for the contest itself, where there will be ample opportunity for a battle of wits. We are facing an unequalled chance to slough off past habits...