Word: great
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...students in the University have been privileged to attend Pasadena's great yearly festival, "The Tournament of Roses." Many do not realize the wonder and the beauty of the event at which the University football team is to take a leading part. In some respects this great "American Riviera" resembles the "Battle of Flowers" hold at Nice, France, at which many of the American soldiers were present last year...
Football was now displaced polo as the great sport which attracts the crowds to the pageant. Although games between eastern and western teams have been held in various parts of the country, it was not until the New Year's festival of 1916 that the management first carried out the plan of having a football game in Pasadena between the best players of West and East. In that year the University of Washington defeated Brown by a 14 to 0 score, and the year after Oregon and Pennsylvania met and the former won by the same score...
...humble opinion the College buildings should be free to lectures on tiddledy-winks or any other subject students may care to listen to, so long as open violence is not preached. If outside speakers are needed to stir the students from their lethargy into active discussion of the great problems facing the world, by all means let them come! FREDERIC K. BULLARD '20 JOHN U. NEF '20 JOSEPH L. GAVIT '21 JOHN COWLES '21 HENRY W. HARRIS, JR., '20. RICHARD P. HALLOWELL '20 ROBERT L. FINLEY '21 CHARLES F. FULLER Occ., JAMES G. KING, JR., '20 LLOYD K. GARRISON...
...second of $500, for the most meritorious papers on the subject of "What Can a Man Afford to Give?". The donor of the prizes, Mr. E. A. Karelsen, believes that a general discussion of the rational basis of contributions for altruistic purposes will do great good, and hopes that competition for the prizes may be nation-wide. Any American citizen is eligible to compete. The essays are to be submitted in typewritten form on or before October 1, 1920, to the secretary of the American Economic Association. No definite length is prescribed for the essays, but it is expected that...
...change is due to a feeling that has long existed in the school that some form of reorganization was vitally necessary if the school was to continue. Added impetus was given to the feeling this year because of the great increase in size. Where the school has never before had more than 230 men registered, this year there are 400 students; nearly double the amount of the usual enrolment...