Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...criticism. It is a delicate subject at best, which college presidents have been too prone to approach from the aspect that "this matter presents no problem for us". Such whistling in the dark, however, seems decidedly off key when one is treated to the spectacle of any college football stadium after the game...
This year's award for torchbearer of righteousness goes by unanimous vote to the President of Princeton, who by an encyclical enclosed football tickets hopes to banish Bacchus from the Palmer Stadium. Through collaboration with the Bible and Lord Chesterfield President Dodds arrived at the scholarly conclusion that drinking at football games is poor manners. It follows that sobriety is laudable. So were the Ten Commandments and Wilson's Fourteen Points, but even the most inspired professor would think twice before attempting to enforce them...
...academic pursuits that they failed to see the world tumbling down about them. Woodrow Wilson vetoed the Volstead Act, and John Grier Hibben led the movement for Repeal in New Jersey. But science tells us the climate is changing, and so it might be cooler now in Palmer Stadium than it was ten or twenty years ago, with a resultant rise in the consumption of alchohol. Or perhaps they believed, as this paper does, that drinking in a stadium, where neighboring eyes should be on the pigskin, not the bottle, is less objectionable than in most public gatherings...
...Chicago Stadium that night, Nominee Landon found the best-organized, most enthusiastic crowd of his campaign. Twenty-five thousand Republicans bobbed to their feet, 25,000 voices roared, 25,000 U. S. flags were waved as he stepped out on the platform. Inspired, the Nominee responded with the best speaking of his career. Hardly a trace of the schoolboyish drone with which he began his campaign appeared as the Nominee masterfully set his audience laughing and booing at Franklin Roosevelt's 1932 demands for economy, went on to attack his opponent with forceful conviction: "As for his assurances that...
...similar drill on defensive fundamentals is scheduled for today, but of considerably less intensity. Tomorrow the second open practice will be held in the Stadium immediately following the practice of the Cadets. The Army squall arrives tonight and will go immediately to the Helment Country Club. While the Cadel corpe will not arrive until Saturday morning. They will march to the Studium from 1.15 to 1.35 o'clock preceeding the game...