Word: gist
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...have been accomplished by organization, rules, and mutual agreement among groups of colleges. After all, is not the standard by which college sports are to be judged, a moral one? And is not the moral question the one which will determine the permanency of these sports?" Here is the gist of the article. The moral effect of college sports is good. They have been improving fast, and there is no reason why the faults which they still have should not disappear. In bringing out these points Professor Hollis dwells on many subjects about which everybody talks but almost nobody thinks...
...Roosevelt, as an old Harvard man, thought that he had a right to express an opinion on the subject and did so. Mr. Warner calls this muzzling the University. Apart from telling us that he has nothing to say of the significance of the Monroe Doctrine, the gist of Mr. Warner's argument is, that Mr. Roosevelt objects to any criticism of our government's conduct of our foreign affairs, as being disloyal. It is difficult to see how any man who has read Mr. Roosevelt's communication can find grounds for supporting such an assertion...
...librettist has turned out a book very much on the old Meihac & Halevy lines, taking mythological dramatis personae and the gist of an old myth, and burlesquing the whole by the introduction of all sorts of modern matter. And in this he has shown a very keen eye for caricature. Take, for instance, his fusion of the Greek Pluto with the modern Devil, of Hades with Hell, and then further burlesquing the composite by making Hell a sort of modern hotel, into which no sinless person can obtain admission; this is excellent burlesque. His working-out of this comic donnee...
After little unfavorable comment on the recent inconsistency of the Faculty with regard to the nineteenth of April, the Advocate in its editorials goes on to a consideration of some important difficulties of the present athletic situation. The gist of the writer's idea is that even if the authorities are convinced of the evil of the present system of athletics, they should proceed carefully in choosing a remedy, lest they crush the symptom and leave the disease untouched. Above all they should beware of weakening the main source of the old "college feeling," which the intensely individualistic tendencies...
Much has been said in the papers of late about "slugging" in football, some of it sound sense, some of it harmless opinion, much of it going far to defeat its own purpose because of its ignorance. The gist of it all is this, that there has been too much "slugging" this year, and that something ought to be done to stop it. With these two main ideas we quite agree. The recent development of the various mass plays where many of the players are hidden from view has undoubtedly done much to render easy the settlement of private grudges...