Word: constants
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...table, the Athletic Association should provide some place, preferably an adequate section of Memorial Hall, where suitable and unextravagant food could be served to all the major and minor teams and their more promising substitutes. Some such "wholesale" system as this, in the hands of men who made a constant study of it, would eliminate three-quarters of the training-table expenses of the Athletic Association, and, moreover, would give to our athletics a democratic unity and comradeship which they could never attain in any other way. W. MINOT...
...graduate who remarked that careful choice of food and therefore training tables were unnecessary, quite overlooked the fact that both trainers and men are in this way unjustly treated, and in addition to regular and good food, we at least owe to the athlete representing our College efficient and constant supervision by a trainer...
...difficulties, or actual criticisms and demands from fellow institutions. These assertions could be verified by a study of athletics at Harvard during the past quarter of a century. The present body of rules has been the slow product of years of trial and experience; and has been subject to constant scrutiny, with a desire to adapt it to existing conditions, nowhere more than in the Athletic Committee itself. That the whole code has not been thoroughly overhauled and simplified during the last two years, as was planned by the Committee in the spring of 1904, is due to causes quite...
Finally the landowners found this system very disadvantageous, for the landlord's share continually increased while the owner's decreased. The land was hired out to intermediaries, who exacted heavy rent, thus forcing it to support three masters. This led to a constant abandoning and recolonization, so that land, good for cultivation, became a luxury, and since the sixteenth century, intensive cultivation has been going on rapidly...
Athletics at Harvard are undertaken amidst a mass of petty restrictions and constant and oppressing difficulties, but none of these restrictions stands out with such a pitiful emphasis of bottomless nonsense as does this idiotic enforcing of a fossilized theory. SENIOR