Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scoreless ties and divided the rest of the games evenly. Five lean years followed with successive Yale victories until Haughton returned as head coach. Then the golden age of Harvard football flourished until the period of the world war. Harvard seems to have viewed its good fortune with an excess of caution; for, at the beginning of the 1914 season, the Alumni Bulletin felt quite gloomy over the fact that only Mahan, Brickley, Hardwick and Pennock could be counted on among the letter men returning to college...
...Verona (Translated by Isabel Grazebrook) - Button $2.00). The emotional and stylistic tumult of this book will quite dismay the normal reader. It is an attempt to plumb terrific abysses, to scale sheer pinnacles of human nature; and the author, dizzied by exertion, indulges a hot Latin temperament to inartistic excess. With strong physiologic emphasis, the story is told of a medical genius who attends his best friend, an engineering genius. He and the friend's wife are overpowered by love for each other, she becoming enceinte. Death of the husband will mean life for them, and the doctor brings...
...universities must not merely encourage each other to avoid the dangers of excess and professionalism. They are examples for all the preparatory schools. What we make of collegiate athletics becomes the ideal for school athletics, where our mistakes and our sins are copied, and where their evil consequences are multiplied by the enthusiasm of imitation...
...intercollegiate contests provide, and the students who take part in these contests are willing not only to undergo many weeks of hard discipline, and often unenjoyable preparation, but also to give too much of their time and strength for the privilege of participating. Your Committee appreciates this risk of excess and declares its policy to keep the number of intercollegiate contests within reason. They should not be so many, nor made so important, as to divert the thoughts, interests, and enthusiasms of the players from the major academic purpose for which they went to Harvard. They should not be inaugurated...
...must do so with an earnest effort and with a full hope for success. Anything less is demoralizing and unfitting. This means that they must be prepared by training and instruction, which will often be more rigorous and exacting than would otherwise be necessary or advisable. Whatever excess or exaggerations may have come from this cause cannot be removed without impairing our equality in the contest, in morale as well as in fact. Your Committee believes that reform should come mainly by joint action with our chief competitors. Yale and Princeton...