Word: monstering
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Should this be admitted a fact, when we say let there be more and larger stadiums, let freshman classes not only buy sweaters for their teams but also give them gold watches and tin halos, let the plans for the new library be scrapped and a monster coliseum be built upon Memorial field; let the classroom discussions during the football season be taken up with such topics. "Do you think we'll beat Norwich Saturday?" but also, please, let those now and then men who come to Hanover to study in the quiet of the hills be taken to Lake...
...long as this tissue is nurtured and irrigated it will live. It cannot die. Its growth is so enormous that it doubles itself every twenty-four hours and if it had not been pared down each day since the experiment began it would now be a colossal monster overspreading all New York...
...college presidents of fifty years ago foreseen that baby football would develop to so huge a monster, it is certain they would have nursed him with some alarm. Had they foreseen that a part of their educational system was to grow, and swell, and put on airs until it became bigger than the whole, they would have taken due precautions to keep the usurper in his place. But they did not see. And in consequence, college football has now reached the point where many persons worship it as the acme of college purpose, as the sole standard of the merit...
This statement was issued to the CRIMSON last night by Rev. G. L. Paine '96, executive secretary of the Massachusetts Federation of Churches and president of the Armistice Day committee that is arranging the monster parade to be held tomorrow...
Hanover, N. H., October 21, 1925.--At a monster rally tonight several hundred Dartmouth students gathered to cheer the big Green eleven that leaves tomorrow for Cambridge. Almost all the students follow the team on Friday hoping to see Dartmouth's third consecutive victory over the Crimson...