Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent disclosure it has been shown that athletes at West Virginia Wesleyan have received as much as $500 for their services Shortly after the announcement the President and Board of Trustees ordered the curtailing of athletics. Funds formerly devoted to sports will serve to establish a new chair of theology. Presumably this drastic measure arose from a recognition of the fact that flagrant breaches of the amateur code like the payment of outstanding athletes are caused by the disproportionate emphasis which has been placed upon intercollegiate football in the colleges. Yet no measure could be more illogical...
...Rebecca West, English lady novelist, considers this frontier, blow-in-your-pile, forty-niner spirit charming. So it may be to a few; the most delicate women may like men with hairy wrists. But New York's lumberjack psychology dispels any idea that America is civilized. Rather it seems that here are the germs of new Dark Ages...
...Ayer Castle. N. W. Ayer & Son, oldest and possibly largest† advertising agency in the world, has long had its offices in an old Philadelphia building on Chestnut St. Last week officials announced that in the spring a new housing will go up, along the west side of Washington Square, Philadelphia; a $1,000,000 monument to its age and prestige...
With a clean sweep on all four boards in the final match with West Point, Princeton nosed out Harvard for the championship of the newly formed Quadrangular Class League in their annual tournament held at the Manhattan Chess Club on December 27, 28, and 29. In one of the closest finishes in the history of the meeting, Princeton overcame Harvard's early lead to win by half a point. This victory, which was the first for Princeton in 15 years, gives them possession of the Belden-Stevens' trophy...
Yale, defeated by Harvard and Princeton, finished third and West Point trailed with two losses and a tie game with Yale...