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...fact that "Because football attracted more spectators than soccer or lacrosse, and therefore gave its players more publicity, the idea arose that football was a nobler sport, and that its devotees were to be honored above the run of ordinary men." Is it not more probably true that the stiffer competition involved in major sports should of itself evoke a greater reward? After all a man who has one or two competitors for a position is less deserving of recognition than one who is successful in winning out over...
After some of the preliminary work was over the men were divided up into teams to play touch football. The entire practice yesterday was rather informal but with the coming of Coach Horween today, it is expected that a little stiffer program will be on schedule...
...organs, magazines, books. Ostensibly Sir Richard is perfectly willing that the Labrador forests should be transferred to the Dominion of Canada-for a sufficiently stiff price. But the exceedingly harmonious relations existing between him and the International Paper Co. with headquarters in Manhattan suggest that Sir Richard thinks a stiffer price can be got from Wall Street. The blatant nonsense about merging Newfoundland with the U. S. is probably a mere advance guard of publicity to prepare Newfoundlanders for U. S. dollar penetration...
Local magistrates at Winnipeg recently warned weapon-toters to expect stiffer sentences. Last week one Herbert Weston and one Andrew Wood, both convicted of "toting," were sentenced to "two years imprisonment and to receive six lashes from a heavy whip...
...Studies at Harvard are far stiffer, and grades much lower, than at Washington. If one drew down a straight B at Washington, and, upon coming to Harvard were to work as hard here, he would be most lucky to get a straight...