Word: scaling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Government by learning now more than ever the principles of business. As the purpose of the training is always practical, the value therefore is as great in war as in peace. No matter how the country is situated, transactions must always take place, even though on a reduced scale. People must buy and sell whether or not their countrymen are under arms. Whatever change does occur in any sort of dealings rises from attempts to economize, to provide only what is really necessary, and to follow out the wishes of the Government. The demand for men with experience, therefore, becomes...
...nation in arms. Few of us have really felt the "pinch of war," yet if we show ourselves willing to undergo a slight trouble for the sake of a principle most irrefutably correct, we begin to see our position. Everyone who is compelled to check waste on a large scale will voluntarily be more careful in small matters. Not only because of actual gain, but also because of the principle involved, vote for a change in the time schedule...
...public has taken upon our games has swept us along involuntarily into mistaken ways. The number of errors in the system is probably great, but we cannot wipe them all out at once. Our revolution must be a gradual one if we are to retain athletics on any extensive scale. The National Association, however, has now publicly recognized these faults and it proposes to deal with these at its next session. It will pass resolutions favoring, first, that there be no more pre-season coaching; second, that professional coaching be reduced to the minimum; third, that then number of official...
...consider it a very great privilege to be able to take an active part, even if it is a small part, in the fight for the greatest cause the world has known, next to that of Christianity. This war is like a football game on a huge scale. It takes the very best men to play it and success depends on wonderful team-work and tremendous sacrifices. And there is a tremendous amount at stake...
...college but said that here the Freshmen have a chance of a lifetime to find the most important thing in the world, but a chance which is not held out as one leading to prominence and college leadership. They must "shift their point of view and change their scale of values...