Word: outlets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...nothing whatever to recommend them. It is admitted that colleges which devote the most attention to athletics are the most free from hazing, rushing, and other customs which were universal before the introduction of athletics. There is a superabundance of energy in the average young man which demands an outlet. The energy which might otherwise be wasted is concentrated on intercollegiate sports, and it is safe to say that far more good than harm is the result. Until some better outlet is suggested, the best thing the colleges can do is not to abolish the system...
...said of the danger of associating with professionals, it is humiliating that the first complaint must be made against college men. The offenses yesterday it is to be presumed, were not intentional but were due to thoughtlessness and the excitement of the close contest. Under such circumstances, if an outlet of pent-up enthusiasm is absolutely necessary it can always be found in cheering the good plays instead of in hooting at the poor ones. The sentiment of the college on such matters is too well known to be more elaborately expressed. The men attending the games must understand that...
...last twenty-five years. The committee has been misled here by the fact that athletics is the one thing in which the college as a whole can take an interest. There is little enough college feeling here as it is; and what little there is must have an outlet somewhere. We do not believe that athletics have increased and grown in any greater proportion than the University itself; nor do we believe that college duties are shirked because of interest in athletics to a much greater degree than they would be shirked supposing there were no athletics...
There are some things to be said in favor of the institution, but many more to be said against it. Those who wish it to continue urge that it gives vent to a feeling that otherwise would find an outlet in hazing; that it serves to break the ice, to some extent, between the freshmen and the upper classmen; and furthermore, that it is a time honored institution, and that that should be argument enough for its continuance...
...fill it all with tobacco smoke? Yea, verily: or ever the morrow's sun. shall rise this vast space shall be packed with dense smoke as with a tangible substance, so that from the flattest-sprawled student beneath a table to the stray bird that seeks an outlet from the highest pane above, each pair of lungs shall be laden with the all-pervading incense of the Indian weed. What can thousands of deter mined men, puffing ceaselessly at thousands of monumental pipes, not accomplish...