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...three months' rest from hard competition. It is hardly possible in either Wood's or Booth's case that the after effects will be disastrous. But for life after college work is over this amount of training and competition will not be helpful. The two-sport rule doesn't affect a majority of the students. Few of them go in for more than two sports. But for all that, it is a good, sound rule, devised for the good of the student who may be overambitious or overkeen along the lines of athletic play...
...affair of an individual. If the strategy of the game were the equal concern of every player, this objection could be set aside. It is, however, impossible to conduct a baseball game with nine men on the strategy board. And therefore the mistakes of the captain would affect not only himself but the entire team...
Several questions should be considered by those who are neither fanatically wet nor fanatically dry. How would the increased sale and consumption of bootleg liquor affect the safety of our highways? Would it tend to increase or to decrease drunken driving...
Another question of the greatest importance is, how would it affect the industries of the state? Competition with the West and the South is pretty severe. A slight advantage on one side or the other may make the difference between success and failure in that competition. Suppose that the West and South should achieve a little more sobriety and therefore a little more dependability on the part of all industrial workers, from the highest to the lowest? Would that give them a little advantage over Massachusetts, or would it give Massachusetts a little advantage over them? They who think that...
...speaking for the entire group of Curtiss engineers who jointly developed the Tanager in the Curtiss wind tunnel after two years' research, last week claimed that the floating aileron gives control at any angle of flight, adds non-stalling characteristics to the plane's performance, does not affect the life of the lower wing. The minimum performance requirements of the competition, included in the 18 preliminary tests which the Tanager successfully passed, are a high speed of 110 m.p.h., a minimum speed of 35 m.p.h., a rate of climb of 600 ft. per min. at sea level...