Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock tonight, the CRIMSON will issue its final call for candidates for the current academic year. Candidates from the classes of 1931 and 1930 will then meet at the Crimson Building, 14 Plympton Street, for the inauguration of a nine weeks competition, broken by the spring recess. The competition will end early enough to provide ample time for study before final examinations...
...Official spring football practice will start this afternoon with a meeting at the Locker Building at 3.30 o'clock. Coach Arnold Horween '20 arrived in Boston Saturday night from Chicago and conferred with his coaching associates at a meeting last night held in the Harvard Union...
...meeting Coach Horween emphasized that the work will be daily and will last until the spring recess. In a few days heavy equipment will be used, and it is expected that many scrimmages will take place...
...Whether spring practice is to make football more a hectic, gruelling business or more of a normal game played primarily for the pleasure in playing it depends largely on the spirit in which the spring season is undertaken and the ends it is intended to serve. In some colleges spring practice has been a large element in reducing football to profession--a profession which claims the exclusive attention of a large number of athletes for the entire year and in which the remnants of sport for pleasure or for health are scarcely discernible. From the start of the spring season...
This afternoon a large number of the football players or would-be players in the College gather on Soldiers Field to inaugurate the spring practice season. The question of the relative merits and defects of extending football practice to include a few weeks in the spring there-with inevitably comes to the fore...