Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That Harvard's style of play will be considerably altered is certain. During his years in the West following his graduation from Harvard in 1921, Coach Horween has absorbed a number of ideas from association with men connected with "Big Ten" conference football, and a more open style of attack is expected to feature the offense on this year's eleven...
...said, "Arnie," and that's the way I am, calling him Arnie the first thing just to make him feel at home. The Forecasts have always been like that. Way back in the darkest hours of the Civil War when General Grant came out of the West to take command of the Union army, who was the one man, the only man in that vast throng of blue-coated soldiery to greet the lonely general with a friendly, "Hello, Ulysses old horse! Good luck!" Who was it, I repeat? It was my grandfather, Corp. Ephraim Forecast. And you know...
...been from the beginning a strong claim for Harvard, Yale, Princeton. Cornell and California, and so to these universities we have sent many of our men. Gradually, however, we are showing to our men the advantages of the smaller colleges in the East and the State universities in the West...
...British scholars, is his natural aversion to a large institution, in which his connection with his teachers and fellow students can not be intimate. In fact, I view with a certain amount of alarm the increasing size of American universities. Most of the higher seats of learning in the West are considerably overcrowded, and only recently have the Eastern colleges limited their numbers strictly...
Although this moy seem to be in some ways like the State universities in the West, there is an essential difference. In America the State not only contributes to the support of the school, appoints its officials, and, as in the case of evolution, restricts its curriculum. On the other hand, the British university that is supported by local funds still retains its independence, for the towns have acted in a most generous fashion, allowing the universities to spend the money as they think best...