Word: alarmingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offer the humble opinion that the value of athletics should not be measured in terms of victory, and that an unfortunate series of defeats is no cause for alarm. The desire to win is, of course, a basic motive in competitions of any sort, but whether a team wins or loses is of no consequence so long as that motive is there. Physical development and the moral benefits of good sportsmanship in competition continue to be the chief virtues of college athletics, despite the victories or losses of individual teams. If the fundamental desire to win no longer burns...
...have pattered about the cloistered halls of our college we have noticed with increasing alarm the tendency we have to make declarations followed by a row of periods: "The thing about college is that it's broadening:" "Americans as a rule are lacking in culture:" "Men are easily understood by women but women will always be a mystery to man." Conspicuous exceptions to all these generalities immediately pop into our minds as we read them in cold print. And yet we can get them off with a perfectly straight face, and conviction in our tones. This bland positiveness bears...
...teaching them. The situation is growing worse every year. Not a department, not a division but has been decimated by the constant striving of other universities to obtain for their staffs the best material in the educational world. Those that have not already suffered view the future with alarm, for they know that the day is not far distant when bids will be made for the services of their leaders. The continuation of this constant drain on the worth while man power of the school can have only the obvious result of relegating Minnesota to the rear ranks of education...
Psychologically President Hoover took the edge off his economy warning in February by having immediately thereafter to request an extra 100 million for the Federal Farm Board. Likewise last week he appeared to blunt his "real alarm" over a 1931 deficit by asking Congress on the same day for 28 million dollars more- just the size of the deficit-for new public buildings...
...request for public buildings. This is a campaign year. All Congressmen are up for reelection. As candidates, they must vote for everything that will give them talking points on the stump, deficit or no deficit. Therefore last week the House's response to President Hoover's "alarm" was passage of legislation to skyrocket the cost of Government...