Word: combativeness
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...Glee Club maintained its supremacy in musical performance, the many graduates, myself among them, shared with Mr. Slocum his regret that it so frankly preferred gloom to glee but in recent years its quality has deteriorated so that now several glee clubs hereabouts have vanquished it in fair combat. Certainly, a healthy sporting spirit would have led it to continue in competition at lest till it had regained its lost laurels...
...unknown author of the original newspaper article was evidently staging an entirely imaginative expose of the "bureaucratic conduct of affairs in the War Department." He should know that combat infantry organizations, in which the Secretary of War and his immediate subordinates served, are not the best breeding places for bureaucratic methods of any kind...
...sports, die when afflicted with professionalism; Whereas, promoters of professional football have this fall for the first time induced undergraduates to leave college for the purpose of participating in professional games; now therefore let it be resolved. That the educational institutions of this country be urged to unite and combat these tendencies to overemphasize and professionalize their competitive athletics...
...about. But if Harvard, Yale, and two other universities will take the lead in the matter and formulate some definite agreement looking to this end, there is no reason why this ideal, or one like it, should not ultimately be realized. And once definite steps have been taken to combat the present overemphasis of football, there can be no doubt that so progressive a lead would be imitated elsewhere...
Theoretically, the world would be better off without the menace of undersea combat added to the horrors of war on the surface and in the air. Although recent evidence apparently shows that the submarine can do little in direct combat with enemy battle units, it is well suited to destroying enemy commerce and striking fear into noncombatants. Even though abolishing submarines might protect these noncombatants, it is scarcely worth wasting breath on such a project at the present time. In the event of any great war in the future, the noncombatant population will be in far greater danger from aerial...