Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...visitors start the game with few veterans, but Captain Kirby at left end and Perry at left tackle received favorable comment for their play during the 1922 season and might cause the Crimson some worry today. Rhode Island is expected to try chiefly open spread formations coupled with a long aerial attack. Just how much they have perfected their offensive in the past two weeks is entirely a matter of conjecture, but it is doubtful if they will show much more power and finish than in the Maine defeat two weeks ago. With the University line outweighing them more than...
With the eyes of a prophet Mr. Adams saw that the tendency carried with it grave defects and argued from the condition in America and the gradual spread of democracy in England that Oxford and Cambridge themselves must in time bow their heads to the "gods of efficiency and utility...
...course, no final refutation of Mr. Adams' prophecy that, despite the very apparent spread of democracy in England since 1913, opinion in Oxford, in the words of Mr. Leys, "has never encouraged the narrower kind of professional training". The great English universities seem to have withstood unmoved that pressure which has converted so many of the colleges of America into great department stores of specialized and professional education...
This spirit of play the schoolboys take back into the villages with them and especially spread it through their Summer Health Campaigns and Daily Vacation Bible Schools which are now carried on with great success all over China...
...aware of itself. The academic painters are in it only an insolent and half-baked challenge in their own medium. The modernists think they are destined to supplant the older school entirely. Neither is right, and when a true understanding of their respective purposes is spread abroad, the antagonism will vanish...