Word: mental
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Princeton relied on statistics of physical injuries, and assertions of mental and ethical harm. Harvard refuted with the testimony of old football players given in the two most authoritative investigations, and emphasized the importance of a clean outlet for surplus animal spirits, the executive ability to "do" things, and the striving toward an ideal...
...second place the present game and training is detrimental to the player's mental activity. This is of vital importance. A Harvard publication says that men during the season do next to nothing in their studies, President Eliot says that the distractions of the game grow greater every year, and a prominent member of this year's Harvard team says that for the past two years University football has played havoc with his studies. Twenty-one colleges in Iowa and Illinois have passed a resolution to the effect that American football as now played is not suitable for educational institutions...
...immortality of man then cannot be proved by scientific or other reasoning. The fundamental proposition has always been, "Man is Mortal." Man, to be sure, changes continually during his lifetime, and it is natural to believe that the mental and physical changes continue after death. There may then be an infinite continuity of change in mankind...
...Cambridge. Among them are men of many different races, religious views and political parties, including a considerable number of socialists. The teachers, through the classes and the relationships which spring out of them are brought closely into contact with the students, thus coming to know something of the mental and moral makeup and the life problems of workingmen. This together with the discipline and responsibility of teaching, make such work of much value...
...athletic transformation. Since about 1885 we have won only two crew races with Yale. Our football record is little better, and the baseball system is deteriorating. Every Freshman can materially help the athletic condition in the University by taking an interest in College sports. Athletics are a splendid mental discipline. Besides this they are physical training, and increase self-control...