Word: interpreting
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Refereeing is a very difficult problem to contend with. How many officials interpret the rules alike? No two in my mind. Some are very lenient, others very strict. I may say the officiating is very unsatisfactory as the players cannot tell just how to play. All this has a tendency to retard the progress of the game as a national indoor pastime. There is no reason why basketball should not be as popular with the youth of our nation in the fall and winter months as baseball is in the summer. There is no question about its attractiveness...
...course in order to free it from the stigma of classification as a snap. The system is wrong that compels a professor to act toward his classes as a policeman continually watching for minor infringements of obscure ordinances that would never be necessary if the student could learn to interpret broadly and honestly the spirit of a few inclusive laws...
...voted that instead of translating some Greek or Latin author into English at the literary meetings as has been the practice hitherto, the members shall interpret and discuss in Latin one of the less difficult authors. The Fables of Phaedrus were selected for that purpose...