Word: effectively
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...changes above described are embodied in the forthcoming edition of the University Catalogue, pages 581 and 476. They will take effect beginning with the academic year...
...says that the distractions of the game grow greater every year, and a prominent member of this year's Harvard team says that for the past two years University football has played havoc with his studies. Twenty-one colleges in Iowa and Illinois have passed a resolution to the effect that American football as now played is not suitable for educational institutions. This testimony proves that either study or football must be sacrificed...
...three specific contentions. My colleague has clearly pointed out to you the first of these contentions--how intercollegiate football forms a wholesome interest which operates as a safety value for the surplus energies of the student body. The second of our main contentions is one of more lasting effect. Intercollegiate football develops individual and lasting efficiency among its players. This is perhaps less extensive in its benefits than our first contention, for it does not reach so large a number of men, but is nevertheless more important, for after all the players should be the first to be considered. Football...
...offenses. The men who play the game are between nineteen and twenty-five years of age and their ethical ideas are not firmly developed. So strong are the temptations and so inadequate the punishments that brutal instincts are aroused in a man not morally vicious. Is not this effect positively detrimental? Then opponents may play unfairly and a player feels in duty bound to retaliate. The results of this tendency are manifest on every side. Do not think that we are attacking the characters of college football players, for they are often victims of a vicious system which they feel...
...made the first rebuttal speech for the negative. Our opponents, he said, have brought out three distinct detriments; the 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...