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...considering the organization of a system for establishing and maintaining world peace, we must refrain from over idealization; although we look to an ideal to which our proposed system aims to attain, our principal attention must be focused on the factors to be considered at the birth and during the infancy of our system...
...substitute material in the minor sports are many. One is that men fear the handicap of inexperience. A man who has never tried any sport will go bravely out for football. Yet he will be afraid of fencing because, through his own ignorance, it seems an impossible art to attain...
...human being could stand the strain of a high stroke over such a distance. The strain on the heart is therefore a gradual if a long pull, and is not so weakening as would be a shorter race. In a race of four miles, then, when the stroke attains an average of 30 strokes to the minute--and in spite of newspaper reports it is very seldom that any four mile crew can attain to this average--taking 20 minutes to row, the oarsman will have breathed 600 times. In a three mile race where the spurting would be fast...
...Sanborn can attain to a more melodious form of verse and learn to see and express things with less straining of the senses and the English language, the artistic insight that he has shown in the general structure of "Vie de Bordeaux" may give him a place of note among contemporary poets...
...both in carrying the ball and in interference. The power of the Yale line and backfield, to sum up, is extraordinary; the present problem is to speed up the machine. If this can be done there is no telling to what heights of greatness and achievement this eleven may attain...