Word: cleanness
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...spectator the Dartmouth game means an exciting spectacular contest. To the Harvard player it means a clean hard fought game in which sudden off tackle plays, and powerful end runs require herculean defensive efforts and in which the fear of long forward passes caught by fleet, sure fingered ends is ever present...
...days a week the Vagabond roams academic purlieus, poking his head into lecture rooms and art exhibits, and himself exhibiting a healthy interest in the things of the mind. But on Saturday, especially in the fall, all this generally goes off with the Friday night undressing, and Saturday's clean shirt brings with it a new character. Ice cream cones have vanished, and tub splashing is gone with all dead things, but the splashing spirit is still ready to splash...
...this interest in a football game? Since the renewal of football relations in 1922 between Dartmouth and Harvard, the games played have been symbolic of the finest relations that can exist between colleges. The teams, reflecting the spirit of their colleges, play good, clean, hard, football. The stands reflecting this same spirit, support their teams with the finest sportsmanship which is due them. Dartmouth men come to see these games of unexcelled sportsmanship and to pack their team with a spirit of fine play...
...evenly matched by the danger of being inane and hysterical. The distinction between the decent and the indecent, however, is much easier and requires no leaf critical genius. There are actions and trivolities which are inexcusable even when done in the name of boyish press and of good clean...
...worst, such as: "I've just learned that that distinguished bookworm, Mr. Gene Tunney, reads my stuff, so now I am moved more strongly than ever to predict that, in the event of a third meeting between him and Mr. Dempsey, the result will be another triumph for clean literature...