Word: less
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...once and by getting through with their sittings as soon as possible, to facilitate the work of the photographs and to enable the photograph committee to finish this work successfully and expeditiously. The duties of this committee are arduous and thankless at best, but they can be rendered much less irksome if each member of the class does promptly the little that is required...
...believe that by the employment of proper professional athletes as instructors, to act under the personal supervision of a director of Physical Education, the students would not only gain more rapidly in experience and skill, but would do so with less risk of over training and its dangerous results. Indeed, looking at the question from a sanitary point of view, it seems difficult to imagine any more dangerous practice, than to intrust numbers of young men animated by a spirit of strong rivalry, with the preparation for athletic contests, without the constant supervision of regular training masters, all of whose...
...amateur definition is strict, and there is a disposition both in England and America to wink less at the evasion of the rule. Very few of the socalled amateur oarsmen who are prominent can put their hands upon their breasts and testify that this clause does not apply to them: "Whose membership of any rowing or other athletic club was bot brought about, or does not continue, because of any mutual agreement or understanding, expressed or implied, whereby his becoming or continuing a member of such club would be of any pecuniary benefit to him whatever, direct or indirect." When...
...drawing up of this statement has been entrusted to a committee, appointed by the various athletic organizations of the college, all of which are more or less affected by the action of the Faculty; it has been duly ratified by the executive committees of each of these organizations...
...appropriate. They serve neither God nor man and know no master. Only education can reach them. They seem to be at the bottom of society and the distance is great. Social influences will affect them first of all. Social organizations, having for standards educational advantages more or less complete, will supplement the work of schools and colleges. The University Club has set the example, and know one can tell how far the liven will work...