Word: spectacularisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the building of huge football stadia and the higher organization of all college athletics, football and basketball may well have superseded baseball in popular favor purely through being more spectacular. The movement to engage all schoolboys and college men in some form of athletics, the wide publicity given to the Olympic Games of 1920 and 1924 (after the hiatus 1912-1920) and to Paavo ("Flying Finn") Nurmi when he visited the U. S. after those Games, may well have been factors making track and field sports momentarily more popular than baseball. The crowded condition of many city playgrounds...
...Chrysler Imperial, developing 92 h.p. and designed to travel 80 m.p.h. for buyers occasionally needing spectacular speeds on good roads, as in the Far West...
...this trying impasse the position of Premier Briand was not so desperate as might at first appear. In ordinary circumstances he would have felt called upon to resign after so spectacular a rebuke to his chief minister. But last week French public opinion obviously continued to regard Pére Briand as the one man who can still save the nation by constitutional means. (Although Le Matin, influential organ of famed editor Stephane Lauzanne, called for the dissolution of Parliament and the establishment of a dictatorship by "staunch and courageous men outside of politics...
...Bulletin: "It is possible that, if proper curbs can be applied, football will regain a secure position where the spirit of the game for the game's sake will take the place of the present clamor for great stadiums and greater gate receipts, high-priced players and spectacular programs on the playing field. Football is a great sport and its best friends are those who regard it objectively, probing to find its faults and know them as well as they know its virtues...
...sport to a business, and a public utility into the bargain. The real issue is whether American colleges shall remain colleges in the older meaning of the word, or whether they shall cease to be such, to become the modern counterpart of the Roman circus as dispensers of spectacular entertainment to the public. Woodrow Wilson once said with truth that athletics were the "side shows of academic life". Today football tends to become the main show. Good sense calls loudly for a return to proper relations between football and scholarship at Harvard...