Word: mans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advent of the motor car and the airplane has given the individual a new relation to his environment by establishing new and infinitely more profitable standards of time and distance. The motor car has changed man's radius of action from 30 to 300 miles a day, while the airplane has increased it to a thousand miles or more. These are substantial contributions to American life...
...advantages to a future business career are perhaps more obvious. A general knowledge of the current influences affecting the business man's particular locality would be an invaluable aid in determining the ever-present equation of supply and demand. This replacement of haphazard judgments by scientific research means more than reading between the lines of Industrial reports. It is the substitution of fact for fancy...
Robert Saltonstall Jr. '33, last year's Exeter captain, was the outstanding man of the Crimson sextet, scoring two Harvard goals, and I. M. Baldwin '33, from St. Paul's, also played comparatively well. Although the playing was not brilliant, there are latent possibilities in the team...
...sports in college life," he said, "should be the development of the physique of each and every student." He favored the system in operation at Oxford, where he had spent a year, in that there was a position on a team of some description or rank for every man. He said that, in England, the number of spectators who attended university contests was relatively small. In contrast to this he placed the American tradition of comparatively recent growth in which thousands of undergraduates "get their exercise by watching 22 gladiators fight...
...which is not readily broken in the spirit, however much it may be observed in the letter, but the failure has produced a widespread feeling that the ideal of amateurism is foolish, highbrow and snobbish. The reason for this is plain. An amateur is usually defined as a man who does not compete for money and does not practice athletics as a way of earning his living. The athletic world is full of men and women who do not compete for money, who rank as amateurs and are in fact thoroughly professional. Whatever may be the source of their income...