Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...fellowship into their sports. Let all such critics consider the fact that the training table is the largest contributor to the democratic side of athletics and to "athletic good-fellowship" that we have. By its means men from all positions and phases of our diversified University life come to know to sympathize with and to appreciate each other in a way which could be effected by no other institution...
...more ready to act upon a suggestion than when his mind and energy are centred on the actual field work. There are, undoubtedly, many cases where men, naturally extremely shy and retiring in nature, are developed into far more efficient workers by the contact of the training table. I know of one cases where the men at table made a special effort to bring out an extremely backward and awkward man, who afterward frankly spoke of the pleasure and benefit which he had gained there...
...second point, it is so important that the members of a team should know each other well and develop that keenness and enthusiasm which is essential to success, that a training-table would be of advantage even though ordinary food were supplied...
...root of the trouble is that not one undergraduate in a hundred knows anything definite about the situation, and that not one can find out anything definite if he tries. The men in the University have a vital interest in athletics, even if for no other reason than that they do the largest share in supporting them, and they ought at least to know something about them. Publicity would also help athletics greatly, for under present circumstances such evils as there are never come out to be remedied, and the impossibility of getting information lends credence to every story that...
...many amendments to the Constitution have been advocated and urged in the long period since the Colonies became States under it I do not know, and if we did know, the information would be curious rather than valuable. It is enough to know that many and great changes have occurred in this country and in the world in that time--changes political, social, material. Mighty agencies unknown, not dreamed of, when the Constitution was framed are common-place now. The most momentous problems of our day had no existence for the statesmen of that earlier day. Govermental machinery almost indispensable...