Word: certaines
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...recent issue of the Yale News the suggestion was made that Yale can carry on certain scientific experiments for the United States Government. These suggestions are valuable ones and have aroused keen interest in the scientific circles of the University. To do such work would assuredly be a step toward national preparedness and with the cooperation of colleges and Government many problems would be cleared that now confront the nation...
...certain amount of military training would modify in a very valuable way the individualistic characteristics of the American man. It is, of course, desirable that no part of the productive period of a man's life be used for this purpose, which would point to doing it as a part of the educational system of the country...
...good material this year in the distance runs and in some of the field events, the society of good sprinters and hurdlers is going to make the task of building up another championship team more difficult than usual. When Moakley had Reller and Van Winkle he was reasonably certain of placing in one or both sprints, and with Starr and Gubb in college the Ithacans were amply protected in the hurdles. Now that all these men are gone, the university must depend on untried material. The most uncertain branches, on the track teak are therefore both dashes and hurdles, although...
...think less of what they can give to their country than of what they can get out of their country; who, while claiming all the ample privileges and protection accorded by the American government to its citizens, prefer to think that their duties end with the payment of a certain amount of taxes...
...Spoladic reports last fall from Ohio--where commercialized football has taken deep root--gave hint of what might happen with the professional system flourishing on a large scale. Collegians, still in college, but having completed their three years in football, played under assumed names, and the fame of certain gridiron heroes was exploited with nothing but gate receipts in mind. One of the leading conference coaches recently expressed to me his theory that Wisconsin's chances had been injured by the fact of some of Withington's assistants running off each Saturday evening to play Sunday football with professional teams...