Word: enough
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Unfortunately even such a centre of intelligence and athletic equipment as Harvard has men who wilfully or carelessly refuse to take regular exercise, who spend their days and nights in comfortable chairs, and call the short walks between classes, or from a dinning hall "enough exercise for them." Some of them are pathetically conscientious students who persuade themselves that they have no time for such nonsense, and sit for hours poring over books that they could master in half the time if their brains were refreshed by a run, a sharp game of tennis, or even a brisk walk...
...football gladiator on the gridiron than the average student spends in a whole year at college. Yet some of the institutions which can afford to be so prodigal in coaching and coddling their athletic teams are the ones which cry out continually that they have not enough income to do their academic work properly...
...spring a University tournament for the individual championship will be played, the winner to receive a cup. In the event that enough interest is shown by the Class of 1920, a Freshman team will also be organized. Matches for the Freshman interdormitory cup, which was won by Smith Halls last year, will be held during the early spring...
...which will delegate the authority to a central board of control. The feature of the new system, just adopted by the Yale Corporation, is that it takes the exclusive control of athletic affairs out of undergraduate boards and places it in the hands of a responsible body, of large enough graduate and faculty membership to make it permanent...
...While this may seem at first sight a complicated machinery, it is simple enough and should be eminently workable. It leaves the undergraduate captains with all of the authority over the teams and men that they have always had; their traditional interest in choosing the older men with whom to work out a system's problems are retained, except that their choices must be acceptable to the permanent body. Each athletic committee has full jurisdiction over all phases of its particular sport, internal and intercollegiate except that its acts must be authorized by the Board of Control. The whole loose...