Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surrender of the higher academic interests, not to mention the surrender of moral principles. I speak of football because it is the one distinctively college sport and the one which arouses the greatest enthusiasm. The more reason, therefore, that we should keep it scrupulously free from every hint or suspicion of professionalism. We cannot say that this is so. Not a few of the most successful teams may be fairly described as technically within the law but grossly violating the spirit of college sport. The temptation has been too strong...
...bane of our college existence, are said to be a mere cold blooded ticketing of students; there is no freedom. Through school and college we are dogged into receiving an education which has been aptly described as a fair amount of knowledge in one field and a shrewd suspicion that other fields exist. We are prone to look to England for the solution of our own problems. It is rather interesting, then, to read in the "Atlantic Monthly" (The Refashioning of English Education, by Caroline Spurgeon) that the nation which possesses Oxford and Cambridge has its problems too--"the refreshing...
...Nations are not moved solely by self-interest", he declared, "but also by motives of racial antagonism. That is the great danger. It means contempt and suspicion among all countries and the estrangement of nations between whom there should be the fullest degree of confidence. Men must acquire a spirit of international brotherhood and good fellowship, without which radical change of sentiment no agreement or peace can ever take place...
...Bonaparte, had the misfortune to contract amoebic dysentery, which made him unable to proceed. It was decided, under the circumstances, to send the chief topographer and one of his assistants ahead to reconnoitre. Their only clues were a few vague directions given by the Spanlard cited above, and a suspicion that one of the side-expeditions made by the Bingham party in 1912 really touched on the ruined university, without following...
...sensitiveness that makes the charm of so many college boys today..... The great end is to keep the game and at the same time to keep from the violation not only of the letter but of the spirit of the rules that are intended to lift college sport above suspicion...