Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...added last night to the story of Harvard-Princeton football when W. D. Hubbard '23 received confirmation from two sources of the charges which he advanced in a recent article in Liberty. George Braden '26, who was on the football squad for three years in college, issued a statement charging that he cancelled his entrance application for Princeton University at the last minute because of treatment which his brother had received at the hands of a Princeton football team. Professor George L. Owen, father of George Owen '23, is the signer of a letter released by Mr. Hubbard in which...
...statement issued by Braden last night was given with the assurance that he was actuated only by the sincere desire to eliminate future unnecessary injuries. The statement follows...
...statement issued yesterday on the charges in the article in Liberty by W. D. Hubbard '22, J. J. Maher '26 former Crimson football star and a member of the Athletic Advisory Board, stated that "graduates of both institutions are getting steamed up over something they know nothing at all about." Maher was one of the undergraduate members of the Harvard Athletic Committee from 1923 until 1925, and is at present coach at Choate School...
According to recent speeches at a Harvard Club dinner the green college freshman is a thing of the past, the jump from school to college has ceased to be the yawning chasm it once was. This statement, as far as it goes, is true for the college freshman of today, who undoubtedly receives a truer conception and a better preparation for the four years on which he is about to embark than the youth in a similar position twenty or thirty years ago. Preparatory schools have assumed a somewhat more collegiate atmosphere, scholarship is on a high plane and college...
Then arguments of the 101 college professors who have signed a statement in favour of immediate arbitration with Mexico on the question of alien land rights are very much to the point. These men feel that immediate action is necessary before the issue "becomes one of national pride and sentiment", and before "feeling may be aroused which will make impossible the judicial settlement now possible." Professorial arguments may not have been of much influence in United States foreign politics, but at least they cannot be regarded as emanating from men who are uninformed...