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...carried on in the spirit of competition because it injures the game of the individuals, as the player goes on the court with the sole idea of winning his practice match. For this reason no weight will be given to the results of practice matches, though actual test matches will be held in the first weeks of March in order to determine the line-up of the team that will go south...
...statements concerning matters previously gone over, some of which are true, and others false. The student is asked to place a plus sign next to those he considers true, and a minus mark beside the false. This takes up two-thirds of the examination, and the old fashioned test occupies the remainder...
...probably a fact that more people have participated in football contests and certainly more spectators have witnessed these contests during the past season than ever before in a single season. In other words, the modern open game now generally understood and well developed has been subjected to another thorough test...
...show at once. Better organization, better co-operation and greater loyality to one another quickly developed. The relay traffic lines grew and grew, and the volume of traffic went to figures the wildest had never dreamed would be the case. Long distance records were hung up nightly. A transcontinental test was arranged, and when the night arrived, the organization was such that absolute quiet prevailed from coast to coast, so that there might be no interference. A message was sent from Portland, Me. to Portland, Ore. and the answer returned. Another from New York to San Francisco, still another from...
...element in America, Mr. Eaton deplored the present attitude of the public towards the stage. "The theatrical condition of America today is almost pitiful", he said, declaring that the people at large have no more interest in the stage and are feeding on entertainment which is not calculated to test their intelligence in the slightest degree...