Word: gret
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...physical training. "A large proportion of students not being sufficiently strong and active to play in the athletic teams find no inducement to improve their physical condition. Thus a very large class take no regular exercise and it is by no means uncommon to find men, often students of gret promise, who leave college as much weakened in body as they are strengthened in mind." The committee expresses itself as strongly impressed with the great importance of encouraging all students to devote a reasonable amount of time and energy to the development of their bodies and general health, and favors...
After summarizing the advantages and the disadvantages which have resulted from the gret development of athletic sports at American colleges within the past twenty-five years, the President says: "If the evils of athletic sports are mainly those of exaggeration and excess, it ought not to be impossible to point out and apply appropriate checks. The following changes would certainly diminish the existing evils: (1) There should be no freshman intercollegiate matches or races; (2) no games, intercollegiate or other, should be played on any but college flelds, belonging to one of the competitors, in college towns; (3) no professional...
...business depression and the large number of men that are consequently out of employment, make the work of the society at present very difficult. Gret discretion is needed in giving help to tramps and beggars, as help that is hastily and ignorantly given often does more harm than good, and is sure to increase the large number of idle, unemployed...