Word: downright
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...both because of the inequality of conditions under which the candidates work, and because a good collector is frequently a most unacceptable sort of a manager. As a result unfounded rumors of favoritism have been freely circulated, and the outcome has been unfair to managers and competitors, and a downright injury to the College...
...oath was taken into account; for instance, a parson's oath was worth twice as much as a deacon's. In trials by arbitration, the judge is the mediating power. In closing, Professor Vinogradoff said that every country has been through the period of customary law, proceeding from downright struggle to compromise, and that this advance was the greatest curb...
...this year no more subscriptions be taken for any team, except Freshman teams. This step must, I believe, be the starting point of any scheme which can hope to solve in any permanent and satisfactory way this complex question of financing our teams. That the subscription system is a downright nuisance I think every man in College will agree. It is, moreover, a thoroughly ineffective system; for as a result of all the soliciting by the many candidates for managerships, the average amount raised for track, crew and all minor sports together, as shown by the Graduate Manager's reports...
...high standard of honor in athletics, with regard to training, is mentioned next, as a contrast to the comparative indifference shown by some to downright dishonesty in preparing college work and in explaining absence from lectures. As to the latter, "able-bodied youths are afflicted with diseases that admit all pleasures and forbid all duties." . . . College ideals are for the most part high, however, and we should not forget "that, when all is said, our undergraduates themselves are constantly purifying and uplifting college honor...