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...third year, the number of men throughout the University engaged in athletics of every kind, has reached a point where it far exceeds the present athletic facilities. The major sports are well taken care of, but for the great number of men who use Soldiers Field for the sake of exercise alone, the present accommodations are hopelessly inadequate. The line of development planned is in the right direction. A number of new tennis-courts are to be built and twenty-five acres of swampy land are to be reclaimed for use as an additional athletic field. The Athletic Association...
...goodbye! I have no time for that. The life that a man in politics must lead is one continuous rush. Going here, going there, leaving one thing only to take up another. But if a college man is willing to give up some of his pleasure for the sake of his work, he will find that he is needed in politics and that there is a great opportunity for him to do real service...
...game were absolutely right now there would be no need for any change; if the disgrace of losing a game were understood to be no disgrace at all, much that is now wrong would automatically right itself. The thing of importance is to play the game for it sown sake; many game such as tennis are played very largely for the purpose of enjoyment. And just so far as any sportsman begins to feel that he must win, will the game lose some of its enjoyment; and just so far will he become less of a sportsman...
...game were absolutely right now there would be no need for any change; if the disgrace of losing a game were understood to be no disgrace at all, much that is now wrong would automatically right itself. The thing of importance is to play the game for its own sake; many games such as tennis are played very largely for the purpose of enjoyment. And just so far as any sportsman begins to feel that he must win, will the game lose some of its enjoyment; and just so far will he become less of a sportsman...
...other hand, the crude fact that young men of wealth, or at least sufficient means to seek purely selfish pleasure, should find satisfaction in coming "to do chores" for the sake of others, is really the best thing that college men have done for Labrador. It does more for Labrador than Labrador may admit or even understand. It is the best thing any man can do for the world anywhere--it is the one modern interpretation of what Christ Himself...