Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...demands of the modern game is more for speed, speed in the backfield, speed at the ends, speed even in the line. But this is not the kind of speed that has been worshipped too often in the past. It means quick starting, quick turning, a quick choosing of the opening that promises extra yardage, the ability to keep one's feet in a broken field, and always to think at least two yards ahead of one's feet. A ten-second man is useful if he can be taught these other things, but a ten-second...
...impurities, can never hope to compare favorably with competition based on efficiency; for it will never secure men so absolutely familiar with their jobs, and so thoroughly competent to administer them. Competition has the further advantages that it fosters democracy by throwing the candidate in with men of every kind, and that it furnishes the most important non-athletic activity in college. Finally, it brings out latent ability rather than rewards popularity already achieved...
...universe in which we live--these are the chief motor impulses of our race, and the third is the most inclusive of them all. Religion is not the creation of a book or priests or governments of institutions. It springs out of the heart of our human kind; it issues from the deep centres of human fears and joys, human terror and helplessness, human aspiration and insight. Its reality and authority are as veritable and undeniable as the experience which produces it is universal and intelligible. Now the minister is set to develop and guide this religious instinct...
...course is less than half an hour by trolley from the university. Rough water here is exceptional, and the river is protected from wind from nearly every direction. It is not spanned by a bridge, and there is no obstruction of any kind. It is available not only for crew practice, but for, intercollegiate regattas...
...more strenuous phases of athletics that can supply this want. If the college man's play looks to an outsider like the most earnest and whole-hearted thing that he ever does, it is because this play is at present his best substitute for "experience," and for that kind of "reality" which pain and hard training rub in. I take the development of athletics as a sign that the instincts of American college students are sound; that they have a healthy appetite for exertion, teamwork, common service, pain and danger. But nobody pretends that the present situation in athletics...