Word: outlet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that sort of work. In a curriculum as full as that of the two schools, there is little chance for the student to devote himself to extra-curricular activities. But by providing settlement work which embodies the features of actual medical and dental experience, Phillips Brooks House affords an outlet both practical and interesting, at same time fulfilling its first concern of aiding, the settlement children...
...projected school is obviously founded on the feeling of the Harvard student body that there is a need for an outlet for dramatic expression in Cambridge. The University has offered no adequate means to develop this latent desire for instruction in the theatrical arts, and the present scheme will include those who have felt strongly the lack of this essential...
...much is sympathy with the ideal behind this suggestion as we are--that of giving the greatest athletic outlet to the greatest number of men, we feel that the move is attempting to cover ground which has already been thoroughly pre-empted and sown. The comparison between lightweight crews and football teams is slightly tenuous, inasmuch as physical limitations are more definitely prescribed in crew than in football. Lack of weight or height precludes the possibility of pulling a sweep on the varsity crew, whereas football is full of notable exceptions where weight has given way to courage and power...
...those who want the physique essential to varsity football there is always the outlet of intramural or class athletics. The gifted souls will find their way into the varsity line-ups, despite physical handicaps. Class football seems the best medium for athletic expression for the light weights, because it emphasizes what little attention we now pay to the ideal of "sport for sport's sake" and does not add fuel to the flames which burn at the altar of the God of football. The Yale News
According to Mr. Hamblin, plans are now being made to build a bigger botanic garden somewhere else, as an outlet for the enthusiasm for gardening, and to divert feeling in the present situation. "Whether or not the Garden can be used for anything other than a botanic garden is for the proper officials to say," was his statement. "The public will soon center its interests on something else...