Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1913-1913
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...obscurity that is the lot of the harmless, necessary scholar, into something of the light that beats so fiercely upon a gridiron. The griev- ance of these intellectuals is not simply the monopoly of college yells and admiring glances that greet the football captain wherever he is so gracious as to show himself. Their complaint goes deeper. The tangible rewards of university life are reserved, not for honor men, but for those who have defended the prestige of the institution at right half or in centre field. Four-fifths of the nominees for offices of the sophomore and the junior...