Word: intra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...each branch of athletics, coordinate the different branches, strengthen the weak spots and see that the strong ones are generally maintained and generally reinvigorate Harvard athletics and hold them on a sound and efficient basis. He would also devote such time as he could spare to building up intra-mural sport...
...supposed to bring in the outside world is too nebulous and too remote a prospect to be a successful incitement to diligence in the pursuit of culture. All men are more or less lazy and some entirely so. In many cases it is to be feared that if all intra-College examinations were abolished, undergraduates free to work as they pleased, would work as little as they pleased. It is not fashionable among undergraduates to admit this fact, but it needs no psychological expert to proclaim its obviousness. Some compulsion there must be, but compulsion in Education is an evil...
...whom there adheres a certain standard of culture and travel, would be, in effect, segregated; and the comparisons and adjustment of standards which goes on all through college would be restricted. College life of a state university, situated in a large city, would be essentially different from the intra-mural associations of a private college...
...overlooked the fact that it takes a fairly sound constitution to stand the "fast life" that he deplores. His statement to the effect that "our fathers" were of a more virile stamp is one which modern insurance statistics can easily disprove. And in view of the remarkable extension of intra and extra-mural college athletics one may read his statement with a shade of skepticism. The youth of today does indeed lead a "faster" life than did the older generation: but constant participation in healthful exercises has made this physically possible...
...conferences as an aid to the coordination of government in a Nation composed of 48 states is obvious. It makes possible the exchange of valuable experience expensively acquired in legislation and executive action. It makes possible unification, or at least conformation of 48 diverse law codes. It makes for intra-national understanding...