Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...speech was an arraignment of the capitalist class for its mismanagement of society. The cave man, he said, had the crudest implements and lived under constant danger from enemies yet could get enough food to maintain himself without working all the time. The modern man, however, removed from hostile environment in a state of society which by the aid of machinery enormously multiplies production, cannot, even by working incessantly, get enough to eat, and must live in a state of wretchedness which no cave man ever knew. Ten million people in the United States are unable to obtain enough food...
...physical benefit to then. They cannot undergo a course of training for football that excludes them from all other activities, study included, for a quarter of the whole college year, and they dare not play at all without such training, or they expose themselves to physical danger to the extent of foolhardiness...
...physical harm, the loss of time, which should rather be given to studies, and the bad moral effect. On the other side of the scale the negative has shown that intercollegiate football creates a wholesome atmosphere, makes individual efficiency, and moulds character. Princeton has held up the strain and danger of injury, but we have punctured this theory by statistics and opinions of authorities. We have called to attention that the danger of football is a danger of bumps and bruises. Against the argument that football makes for foul play, we have held up virility. I know personally that foul...
...opening the rebuttal for the affirmative P. McClanahan said: Does this game really teach men to do things? Some things, yes; but not those things for which a university should stand. Football does cause loyalty to an ideal, but not the proper ideal. Our opponents say the danger is a question of bumps and bruises. It makes a difference where these bruises come. This whole matter hinges on the question: Why does a man come to college after all? Surely not to play football, and spend time in the hospital. Our opponents say that football is a player's whole...
...Good showed clearly how great the danger of European intervention would really be. His speech was well refuted by P.L. Butler, who showed that the interests of the United States are not at stake, and that we are now forming a dangerous precedent...