Word: hinders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That student conference at Wesleyan University, culminating in proposals for the reform of football, recalls an issue which has been discussed for a full decade. Do athletics, especially intercollegiate athletics, promote or hinder the cause of education? President W. T. Foster of the Reed College at Portland, Oregon, has been one of the most outspoken in condemnation of what he calls "exaggerated emphasis" on college sports. He asks our attention to "the weaklings among the undergraduates who spend their hours in cheering a football hero and their money in betting on him, while the man of highest achievement in scholarship...
...Chamberlain: "Locarno was not the place and those assembled there were not competent alone to produce a scheme of world disarmament. . . . But we did nothing to hinder such a development . . . much to make it easier...
...weather man announced late last night that the usual condition of dampness would hinder the players today. Cambridge was pretty well soaked this morning and was still under a heavy...
...that statements must not be false, slanderous, libelous, blasphemous, obscene, immoral, inimical to the public welfare or tend to create warfare or incite to sedition. They must not corrupt the public morals, incite to crime, disturb the peace, create anarchy, teach soldiers disobedience of their command, impede or hinder the Government in its functioning...
They will have a hard time at Washington where officials have already expressed themselves as displeased at the Franco-British agreement. M. Caillaux last week asked the French press to be mild in its comments?not to stir up ill feeling that will hinder the mission's work at Washington...