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After summarizing the advantages and the disadvantages which have resulted from the gret development of athletic sports at American colleges within the past twenty-five years, the President says: "If the evils of athletic sports are mainly those of exaggeration and excess, it ought not to be impossible to point out and apply appropriate checks. The following changes would certainly diminish the existing evils: (1) There should be no freshman intercollegiate matches or races; (2) no games, intercollegiate or other, should be played on any but college flelds, belonging to one of the competitors, in college towns; (3) no professional...
American society lacks individuality. There is an artificiality in it all that deprives it of life and freedom. In the various grades of society, aristocracy and democracy are prone to assert themselves to excess. A man who emphasizes his aristocracy shows that he is ignorant of the true position of aristocracy; the man who boasts of his democracy does the greatest harm to the cause of democracy...
...class in developing exercises will begin in the gymnasium today at 5 o'clock. As the number of applicants for membership in this class is much in excess of the capacity of the main floor it will be impossible to give positions to all who have applied. Should any whose names are on the plan, and thereby assigned regular positions fail to fill them, their places may be taken by those whose names are on the waiting list. The positions on the floor and the names on the plan will be numbered correspondingly, so any one can rapidly find...
...training has been much better, but not up to the standard which is required. Whether or not the erratic playing of the nine has been caused by this loose system of training, is a question which the men themselves can best answer, for they only know just to what excess they have carried it. However this may be, it is unpardonable that any man should jeopardize the chances of victory by his own private conduct. The principle at stake is one, the justice of which every fair minded person will admit. A man owes it to the University he represents...
...treasurer's report stated that $3262. 12 was expended in excess of receipts, making the total expenditures for the year...