Word: evens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wealth of material returning Coach Robinson should have little trouble in developing a team even stronger than this year's. Pollard stands out as the star of the 1916 eleven. Although inclined to be erratic, this player by his clever dodging running made himself the chief ground-gaining asset of the team this fall. With more experience the should develop into a phenomenal halfback. Besides Pollard there are such men as Purdy, Jemail, and Murphy in the backfield. These, with Sprague, Ward, and Wade, to bolster up the forwards, should produce a strong combination next year...
...interest in preparedness does not depend, I think, on any momentary excitement or alarm. It means, rather, that we are waking up to certain permanent facts,--facts more permanent even than the need for national defence...
...craving for greater reality. The college student is a man in growth without a man's responsibilities; he needs an ingredient in his life of something beside books in order to make his books themselves seem real to him; he needs a dash of physical effort and even risk. And there is nothing, at present, except the more strenuous phases of athletics that can supply this want. If the college man's play looks to an outsider like the most earnest and whole-hearted thing that he ever does, it is because this play is at present his best substitute...
...great bulk that many courses have now attained has made it practically impossible for the instructor even to know his men by name, and this has necessarily tended to drive out the element of personal interest. Added to this, the professors have changed from men who had a philosophical interest in their students as well as in their subjects, to scientific experts who have devoted their whole energy to their subject and the best means of imparting it to others. Efficiency based on knowledge is nowadays sought more eagerly than wisdom, both by the professor and by the student...
...vacation extending from December 20 to January 5 would allow time for students to spend both Christmas and New Year's at home. Even if the University should refuse to allow this, it would seem that two full weeks, at least, could well be granted...