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...remain in the game, even though such players were oftentimes seriously injured or thoroughly worn out, with the excuse that they had no available substitute for that position and that the injured player might recover between the halves. The foregoing rule should tend to lessen injuries, and will also compel coaches to have the proper number of substitutes for each of their players...
...very well to try to win and to try hard, and it is well for every member of the University to be normally enthusiastic for the team's success. But should we go so far as to make the cheering a rather hysterical and often unfair attempt to compel victory, rather than a recognition of good playing by the teams...
...that constant sport turns a man from his studies is equally absurd. If a man wants to study, there is plenty of time to do so; and if he doesn't wish to study more than the minimum required, no restriction of the kind that this rule enforces will compel him, or even incline him, to study more. There is plenty of time for a man to play on three University teams and get a degree "cum laude." It is merely a personal matter...
...Inasmuch as the concert-givers are still students it would be hypercritical and unjust as well, to apply the more on less inflexible professional standard to their performance or to their original compositions. Yet in many respects both were of so high and thorough-going a standard as to compel both admiration and astonishment...
...upon his attention are as numerous as the many and diverse activities of our complex modern life. In view of the fairly comparable values of the great number of studies in promoting breadth of view, it is ridiculous to fasten upon any single study or department of study and compel the student to take it. It is only when a student neglects some wide field of study that he can be called guilty of narrowness of choice; and an examination of the programs of students in elective colleges will show that they are not prone to such narrowness. Moreover...