Word: counteractivity
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...counteract these not too encouraging facts, the advantage of a more seasoned coaching staff, one that has worked for one season together under Harvard conditions, is a heavy counterweight. When one also considers the benefits to be reaped from the excellent spring practice session, the eleven's outlook for the season is far more rosy than it was at this time last year...
...keeping only the essentials, crossing inter-departmental barriers, and getting a broader, general view of the world today. The President has planned new "roving professors", unattached to nay Department, to carry out this pruning. This plan is to be applauded and backed as being one which will tend to counteract the emphasis placed on research and scholarship...
Jeffrey W. Campbell, a member of the National Executive Council of the American Student Union and Guest speaker of the evening, stated that the chief purpose of the American Union was "to counteract academic sterility unsupplemonted by contact with actual world conditions...
...itself referred to the new songs introduced at St. Louis, and the press associations considered the plan of home talent dramas developed by the Anti-Saloon League sufficiently new to give the story nationwide circulation. Also there was the new idea of a $2,000,000 advertising campaign to counteract the high-pressure advertising and sales promotion activities of the liquor interests. Your implication that because former leaders in the anti-liquor fight like Cannon and McBride are still loyal to their convictions no new leaders are joining in the fight against intolerable conditions caused by alcohol is entirely incorrect...
...give him an identity in life. It is the lack of individuality of the ingredients which go to form institutional life which foster and aggravate "stir-simple"-ness. It is by keeping abreast of the times and keeping alive my interest in my country and the world that I counteract the appalling efforts of institutionalization which I see constantly around me. I have a job assignment and duties to perform. They largely usurp my time, but their very uniformity and conformity stifle interest. Hence it takes all the time which I can rightfully call "my own" to keep alive real...