Word: getting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Stadium, and improvements on Soldiers Field, are legitimate ways to spend any amount of surplus from gate receipts. Outsiders are only too glad to pay to see College athletics, and it is only right that they should. This seems to me a legitimate way for the University to get financial aid for fostering general athletics and securing these improvements. JOHN. J. ROWE...
...system of training can be entirely efficient without the aid of a training table. In the first place it affects the athlete's health, for he must have nourishing food, served at regular times and adapted to the hours of practice. To get these conditions the table must differ from the ordinary standard even though the changes are slight. Moreover, it is only fair to the trainer to allow him to watch the men at meals, for in no other way can he surely discover that a man is out of condition. Men have frequently been sent on time trials...
...which he comes to grief. He attempts to assist Humphrey in his love affairs, but is also unsuccessful in that respect, as Jasper wins Luce by having himself carried as dead to Venturewell, by whom he is immediately sent to his daughter's apartments, in order to get her to accept Humphrey. The lovers change places, and Jasper makes his escape as his own ghost. When Venturewell finds that his daughter has not been spirited away by magic, he is so relieved that he forgives them both on the spot, and all "live happily ever after" except Ralph. The "Knight...
...that inequalities of genius are mere caprices of chance. Some philosophers try to support this theory by the assertion that every great invention which has taken place, has been discovered simultaneously by several minds, while the one to receive the credit was he who was lucky enough to get to the patent office first. That this is untrue, that it was the greatest genius, and not the quickest foot which received the credit, was shown by the examples offered in past history of several men who lived under the same conditions, but of whom one always emerged superior...
...useful as such. But play is not business, and it is a very poor business indeed for a college man to learn nothing but sport. There are exceptional cases which I do not need to consider; but disregarding these, I cannot with sufficient emphasis say that when you get through college you will do badly unless you turn your attention to the serious work of life with a devotion which will render it impossible for you to pay much heed to sport in the way in which it is perfectly proper for you to pay heed while in college. Play...