Word: minds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...about. A Le Gore, a Mahan, a Howard Miller, a Hobey Baker, does more to stimulate the average student to emulate the example of these stars in ways however humble than any amount of theoretical dogma designed to show that athletic exercise in the open air is good for mind and body. --LAWRENCE PERRY, IN THE NEW YORK EVENING POST...
...fact that the undergraduate mind is enlarging its boundaries has appeared quite conclusively from the changing tone and content of more than one undergraduate newspaper, whether daily or weekly. To columns which had long been filled with little more than the trivialities of campus life, there have lately been coming topics affecting the military drill of the students, the service which college men have been rendering in the war and must render still more abundantly, questions of real preparation for life. Several student editors, notably the editor in charge of the Williams Record, have shown a disposition to give their...
...that in time of war no nation must have a sea power superior to Germany's or capable of coping with German aggression. Yet when Germans solemnly protest that they are fighting for the freedom of the seas, it is the Tirpitz kind of freedom that they have in mind. New York World...
Important athletic contests have been in the past a convenient excuse for forgetting. On the morning of a Harvard-Yale game anyone might disregard a commission with impunity, since his mind was taken up solely with the idea of getting to Soldiers Field. There are many in the University who have performed their duty in one respect, so they have a weighty commission to execute. We refer to the support of the Y. M. C. A. fund. The game in the Stadium this afternoon will not be a valid reason for any undergraduate mental lapses about this duty...
...many places demoralized: the poison of German propaganda is having its dire effect of which the antidote is work such as Dr. Mott discribed. The Russian soldier has many hours of leisure, he must be kept busy or he falls prey to clever German speakers who fill his punitive mind with theories of Teuton love and internationalism. The Y. M. C. A. is our only method of reaching such men; its wonderful effect has already been demonstrated by the results obtained among the Russian armies in Turkestan...