Word: diverting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...knowledge and exertions the places filled by professional trainers in more favored colleges. Probably their service has been as wise and their supervision as careful as amateurs could possibly have given. It is also true that the overshadowing importance of football in the public interest would be likely to divert the bulk of the coaching away to that sport. It is hard, we know, to find money to foster these minor sports which bring in no gate receipts, and Harvard of course is very, very poor. But the fact remains that other and smaller colleges can and do provide professional...
...seem reasonable that a man who can keep off probation the year round, taking part in two sports, could as easily compete in three? Because sure as water rises to its own level man takes his normal exercise, and the gratifying result of this rule is only to divert a certain amount of this exercise into channels which in no way assist the University. It's a pity, a great pity, that so many Harvard defeats are shelved with the athletic rules of its own making. It would seem as if the powers that be didn't care...
...transmittendum to posterity. Should not Harvard with its recognized advantages do its part toward developing actors of recognized ability? We demand the highest qualifications for teachers and members of other professions. Is there any real reason why we should not demand an equally high standard for the men who divert us in our leisure hours, and, since demands alone are generally ineffective, should we not back them up by some tangible organization which will have for its sole object the encouragement of undergraduate dramatics...
...been a beacon light to many who seek their way amid the tossing waters that surround us. Loving beauty in literature and in art, and seeing the need of it for the delight of life and the refinement of character, he has never allowed his apostleship of beauty to divert him from the pursuit of goodness and truth...
...second of a series of four lectures, illustrated by stereopticon views, on "Paris during the Reign of Terror," the subject for tonight being "The Republican Festivals." The lecture will describe the painful condition of the people during the Reign of Terror, and the great festivals that were arranged to divert their attention...