Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...friendly remarks in regard to athletics, especially his comments on the question of "hired athletes", are clarifying and much to the point. He indicates the absurdities of an attempt to bring a player here from another college, with the necessity of supporting him through a preliminary year, on the uncertain chance that he will be both eligible and desirable for the team. A man who could be secured on such a basis is not likely to show a character that would qualify him to represent the University...
...means certain. This winter, for the first time, the Tiger squad will have an opportunity to practice on artificial ice. This should vastly improve the strength of the team, which last year showed a great amount of latent power, but whose play demonstrated the effect of uncertain practice conditions...
...uncertain element in any such enterprise--and the one most frequently overlooked--is the audience; yet that in the end determines success or failure. If Boston's apathy toward Mr. Hampden's truly inspiring work may be taken as witness, there seems no reason to suppose that the public wants a National Repertory Theatre. There are always the few, awake to opportunity, who see and enjoy such productions as Hampden's repeatedly; but those few are not enough to make great art popular art, and unless it is popular as well as great, the National Theatre will fail. But perhaps...
...Edison has expressed in no uncertain terms his opinion of the college man in overalls; any ward "boss" will be equally frank abut the college man in politics, and both are in large measure justifies. The men with A and B minds who are content to slide comfortably through college with a "gentleman's mark", C Taking interest in their activities their athletics and nothing else, are the same men who will be equally content twenty years from now to slouch comfortably at roller-top desks behind six-inch cigars...
...Paul's Line-Up Uncertain...