Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doubt the wisdom of the proposed step. The award of a minor letter without any strings attached to it would do more than remove a tangle of cumbersome formalities that now attend the recognition of many teams. It would go far toward placing all sports on the basis of parity which they deserve. The division of sports into "major" and "minor" is a remnant of the days when there attached to each game a certain individual glory that was saleable off the athletic field. Because football attracted more spectators than soccer or lacrosse, and therefore gave its players more publicity...
...this has been changed. Behind such shibboleths as "sport for sport's sake" and "athletics for all" stands a real change in values. Where every effort is bent toward an ideal of every man playing a game for its own sake, the meaning of the false distinction conferred by an athletic letter has vanished. There was a time when only the men who wore letters played; now nearly everyone plays, and while the letter may serve a purpose as a marker of outstanding ability in a game, there should be gradations of honors among the different sports...
...solitary heart went out most unreservedly and with the most pathetic devotion toward fragile chickens; and out of these uninteresting little birds he elicited a degree of responsive intelligence which was starting to see. One of his dearest friends, coming home from a journey, brought him a couple of bantam eggs...
...this end, the Corporation appointed an Executive Committee of which the Rt. Rev. William Lawrence, S.T.D., was Chairman and Dean Wallace B. Donham, Executive Chairman. In order to promote the work of this Committee, the Corporation agreed to appropriate from its won funds $750,000 toward the needs of the Division of Chemistry $500,000 "for endowing research" and $250,000 "for a maintenance fund for the Chemical Laboratories...
...fact real news can't be suppressed," Mr. Madry added. Real news will out, regardless of attempts of college officials toward suppression. True, it may be suppressed temporarily, as frequently it is, but the fact remains that a good story that is fit to print is going to get into print sooner or later...