Word: tagging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Butler of Columbia, upon the completion of the merger, declared mouthfillingly, that it was "a significant step in the evolution of the organization of higher education". But if most innovations have borne this tag, such a union must be admitted as the really hopeful direction for the dreaded mass education to take. Business developments have sufficiently demonstrated the advantages of the branch system. It universities can have the strong trunk of efficient administration and authoritative lecturers, and still diversity their branches with unit colleges of different types, such as Yale promises and Columbia provides, the fear of Ford factory...
...gifts to the University generaly come with a "Handle Carefully" tag attached to them. Weld Hall may need new plumbing badly; but the generous contributions are all labelled for a new professorial chair, for a rare edition of Shakespeare, for another set of squash courts. These are all worthy projects, and the gifts are received thankfully; still, though man does not live by bread alone, he does need bread; and the plebeian matters of hedge-trimming and board walks require money...
Yesterday's practice again consisted largely of a dummy scrimmage between Team A of the University squad and the ineligible combination, which put on Brown offensive plays for the benefit of the Crimson defense. A brief workout on fundamentals and a session of tag football preceded this drill, and later Teams A and B faced each other in a period of dummy scrimmage chiefly devoted to offensive work...
...been retired in the eighth inning. Against such pitching no game can be won. Yet Pittsburgh errors again helped every New York run. In the first inning, when New York made two runs, Pitcher Meadows deflected a ground ball away from Second Baseman Rhyne, who then played tag with it while the batter reached first safely. Batter Gehrig hit a fly to left field which a fast left fielder might have reached but which Pittsburgh Outfielder Barnhart could not touch. In the eighth inning New York made six more runs, including a home-run by Batter Ruth with...
...home specialty." Slyly wrote the editors, fearing that gum-chewers might miss the delicate wit of this tidbit: "Our mischievous correspondent's inference seems too obvious for pointing." Over their rude insinuation against the Mayor of the largest U. S. city, they put an almost libelous tag: "THERE MAY BE A CACKLE IN THIS...