Word: impetuses
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...regard to point (2): if it is true that intercollegiate competition is the chief impetus to athletics, then the athletics-for-all policy, Harvard's extensive intra-mural program, and President Lowell's theory of the Greek as opposed to the Roman ideal of athletic competition may all just as well be relegated to the scrap basket. Furthermore the figures on the number of men engaged in intercollegiate sports and those engaged in frankly intramural competition are so convincing on this point that it need scarcely be considered further. In dealing with the class of men to whom only extra...
...historic facts from which spring many of those generalizations which from the fibre of political thought. There is a new understanding that comes with a long perspective; there is a judicious tolerance towards contemporary institutions that grows from a grasp of past usefulness; and there is an impetus to orderly progress in the description and analysis of those present-day adjustments through which perplexed communities aim to regulate the rapid and often extreme transitions that art a phenomenon of modern life. Broadly, the application of these observations to one of America's most distinguished political experiments--the Massachusetts town meeting...
...trouble of making a statement to the effect that this student society is not to be taken seriously--the only thing which has so far given if the least aspect of seriousness. Such an action, though calculated to be discouraging, is far more likely to prove an added impetus. In all probability, the most effective attitude in such cases is one of blissful ignorance and complete detachment...
...Department of Agriculture becomes increasingly alarmed at the high mortality rate of wild fowl (TIME, Dec. 16); Its advisory council of sportsmen persistently urge a lowering of the bag limit, more game preserves. Last week impetus was given to their cause by an announcement from the National Association of Audubon societies that great numbers of water fowl are being destroyed by oil on coastal waters. The oil residue, which comes from coastwise ships, gathers in the bays and inlets where the ducks rest. Once it reaches a duck, the oil glues his feathers together and, unable to swim, he dies...
...timid fellow who strikes his father in an altercation and fancies that he has killed him. Fleeing across the wild coast of County Mayo he tells the tale of his patricide in a public house and is immediately heralded for bravery, ogled by the village girls. With this impetus he becomes indeed a dashing fellow. Then his avenging father appears and the psychological fun begins. This famed, lyrical comedy by J. M. Synge is now revived by the Irish Theatre. The actors find it as difficult to speak distinctly as they did in The Silver Tassie (TIME...