Word: detrimental
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...college, however is in fixing a standard for men. By this standard men go through life, and it is the purpose of the college to encourage a standard that is not so high as to be impossible of attainment, and yet not so low as to prove a detriment. The college in this sense makes...
With the growth in importance of the minor sports, the injustice of the two-period rule has become more and more apparent. In October, 1904, the Athletic Committee, believing that the undergraduates were devoting too much time and thought to athletics to the detriment of their college work, decided that no man should represent the University in more than two of the three periods of athletics in any one year. They were unwilling, as was stated by Professor White two years ago, "to countenance the continuous devotion to athletics and the amount of absenteeism involved in membership on some University...
...moment's thought to the matter, it is not difficult to understand the attitude of the Faculty upon this question. That body quite rightly reasons that if athletics have come to such a pass that at the termination of a season an athlete must leave Cambridge to the serious detriment of his college work, then measures should be taken, in the way of cutting down schedules, to alleviate this abnormal physical strain upon the constitution of said athlete...
...floor space. That the running track is value-less is proved by the fact that a board running track is built outside on Holmes Field for the track work during the winter. Basketball and track practice conflict on the floor of the main hall in the afternoons, to the detriment of each, while the gymnastic team is forced to practice in the evening. In the late afternoon, a gymnasium class is held, and in between all these exercises and prac- tices, scrub teams and individuals exercising on the floor are hampered. The lack of a tank practically cripples the swimming...
...matter of fact it affected a great many. Probation itself became blunted and worm-eaten by this idiotic rule. Does a man who has made a successful record in the fall in both sports and studies find himself better off than his neighbor who has competed to the detriment of his courses? Not a whit. Doesn't it 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...