Word: extent
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...CRIMSON has stated that there is but one remaining chance to save the winter contests without endangering the actual existence of both football and baseball. That chance lies in securing tangible facts or statistics to show to just what extent, and in just what way, the scholarly interests of the University have been impaired by intercollegiate athletics. It may then be possible to justify the Athletic Committee in the eyes of the Faculty in rejecting the proposition now under consideration, and to prove that curtailment will not have the desired effect of raising the standard of scholarship. The various abuses...
...outset it must be generally conceded that but for the Faculty recommendations the Committee would never have contemplated legislation against winter sports, nor to any extent against any of the existing schedules. As the CRIMSON pointed out back in January,--when accused of failing to distinguish between Faculty and athletic authorities, and when assured that the Faculty action was but a passing whim,--any recommendation from the Faculty of Harvard University is bound to carry enormous weight. The statement was justified, for the Athletic Committee now feels compelled to take some definite action. Much as many members of the Committee...
...must frame our arguments, in an effort to maintain the present status of our major sports and at the same time to preserve the minor ones. As a last resort it is necessary to show that the proper move is against real athletic abuses, and not against the extent of participation...
...conceivable source we have met among other contentions the argument that athletics today do not offer a field of activity for all the student body. We are told that a few men play well for the entertainment of a large body of non-athletic spectators. Fortunately to a large extent this is no longer the case. The "non-athletic spectators" are themselves becoming competitors in the less important games within the University. When the rest of Soldiers Field is reclaimed, and the Athletic Committee has demonstrated its ability to put athletics within the reach of all, as well...
...Harvard University enlisted in the forming regiments for the front. Some went as commissioned officers, some as privates; some were in the infantry, others in the cavalry, others wore sewed to the sleeve of their shirts the red cross of the hospital corps; everywhere throughout the vast extent of armies, in Cuba, in Porto Rico, or left behind to sweat and toil in weariness, men we had known and men we had heard of, men placed in command of companies, or in the third relief of the guard, were doing what ought to be done...