Word: yale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...repeal of the Volstead Act are so agitated at the present time is because they have hurled a definite challenge at President Hoover," said Thomas Nixon Carver, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, when asked to comment on statements made in behalf of Prohibition by Professor Irving Fisher, Yale economist, in a recent address. "If he succeeds in improving conditions as they are, and materially cutting down the evil as it now exists, the main argument of the wets will be gone. They have been hurling the lack of enforcement into the faces of their opponents for so long...
...rumor, spread in last night's Boston press that Mal Stevens, Yale football coach, intended to resign his post to Adam Walsh at the end of the season, regardless of what luck the Bulldogs had, was emphatically denied last night by the Yale News...
...opposition this season. The opener will be February 12 at Harvard, followed by games away from home with N. Y. U., February 21 and Pennsylvania on the twenty-second of the month. The Army will be met in New York on March 1, Columbia at home on March 8, Yale at home, March 15. The Intercollegiate semi-finals will be held in New Haven on April 5, followed by the finals in New York, April...
...Yale of late years (her example, besides being typical, is most pertinent to the present discussion) has collected from her faithful sons an enormous endowment fund. Who were its most conspicuous donors? Were they prize scholars grown affluent as a result of the intellectual nutriment they derived from her, or merely run-of-the-mill graduates with an aptitude for trade? The latter undoubtedly. And what do they look for as a sign that their university is maintaining its prestige in the academic realm? A winning football eleven...
...gratify them under the circumstances becomes a recognized obligation. This does not mean, of course, that Yale is not a stickler for all the amateur rules governing intercollegiate sport. She is, Technically no taint of professionalism touches her skirts. But that is hardly the point that Mr. Taft has in mind. He sees the source of the pressure to elevate muscle over mind and the enormous investment in equipment and coaches that is dedicated to this...