Word: yales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...revealed the other scores as follows: New Hampshire 13 B. U. 0 Army 26 Gettysberg 0 Dartmouth 54 Hobart 0 Florida 18 V. M. I. 0 Michigan 18 Michigan State 3 Holy Cross 33 Providence 0 Yale 40 Vermont 0 Boston College 23 Maine 6 Princeton 19 Amherst 3 Brown 20 Rhode Island 0 Stanford 19 Oregon 6 N. Y. U. 26 W. Va. Wesleyan 6 Navy 23 Wm. & Mary 0 Penn 27 Swarthmore 6 Tufts 13 Colby 3 Cornell 67 Niagara 0 Williams 13 Middlebury...
...article printed in these columns today President Angell of Yale discusses an idea which has been in the public eye for some time and one which should seem attractive from a number of points of view to supporters of the policy of the present Harvard Athletic Association...
...first has to do with the difficulty of securing a general agreement among the institutions which compete with one another. No one college is likely to be willing to withdraw the supervision of the coach unless its chief competitors follow the same practice. For example, some of Yale's opponents have been willing to adopt this policy but others have not. Only once therefore, so far as I am aware, has Yale actually tried the method...
This can be best maintained in one way at least by the preservation of the class as the most efficient factor of social solidarity. Of all bonds between Yale and alumni the class stands out as the most widely used, most generally respected. The effect has been good, for it has subordinated society, fraternity and school to their proper stratum, levelling the members of a class to one common denominator. Why can't it do as much for our subsequent social divisions--the houses...
President Angel admits that undergraduate and alumni locality have focalized around the class. Then why discard such a potential weapon, for one which has yet to be tried and which, no matter how successful, can never even gracefully imitate such an essentially democratic and all-Yale line of division as the class? Yale is vexed with too many social lines of cleavage now, without adding a basically artificial substitute for the most popular method of division yet found. The class is one of the few weapons which Yale possesses to prevent the beast from biting the hand that feeds...