Word: might
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...most likely cure, as yet proposed, and its adoption was strongly urged upon the college authorities. Here, as in all other recommendations, cognizance had to be taken of the chief stumbling block--the insufficiency of attractive features as a means of fostering interest in the Union. The proverbial horse might be whipped, in a sense, to the trough of water, but he could not be forced to drink from that receptacle. In compelling each member of the University to join the Union by placing the tax on his term bill, additional revenue would be assured unquestionably. It would not follow...
...preliminary athletic contests, group games, class and intramural races, and formal gymnastic displays might be left with the regularly appointed instructors to arrange--but all final athletic contests and intercollegiate matches and games may best be left with the student athletic organizations to manage under the supervision of an athletic committee as at present constituted. No college, in my opinion, can consistently require its students to engage in strenuous athletic contests with students from another college...
...this respect the college might even go a step further in imitation of the ancient Greeks, and see that every man who desires to enter an athletic contest spends at least three months in preparatory training. By so doing many of the heart strains and other physical disorders found in the recent draft examinations would be avoided...
...hoped that some of the more flagrant abuses of the old system will be eradicated when intercollegiate athletic contests are resumed. The whole array of paid coaches, trainers, scouts and other attendants ought to be cut down considerably and the number of games which involve traveling might well be reduced. These things have made college athletics unduly expensive in the past and have given all college sport the taint of semi-professionalism. If the system is not to be reformed, it should at least be improved. Boston Herald...
...University of Wisconsin, in response to a great demand among the students, has just completed plans for the erection of a Union. This draws our attention to the fact that our own Union is not in as flourishing circumstances as it might be. Even before the war the expenses were becoming harder and harder to meet. The membership had declined. It was proposed to make membership compulsory among the students in order to meet the annually increasing deficit, but the plan was never carried out. The war and the Radio School coming at just this period, it was found convenient...