Word: overdo
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...point may be justly taken against the expenditure--the amount which goes toward organized athletics rather than the greatest physical good to the greatest number. Admitting that organized athletics are a necessity and admitting that the tendency here of recent years has not been to overdo them, but to encourage general exercise as far as possible. There is still much, especially on the tennis courts, which could be done. One of the chief aims of the Athletic Association in the future should be to increase the facilities for, and thereby promote the popularity of exercise...
...Periodically people overdo this speculation and a panic ensues. The salient feature of business today is that the monopolies are growing, and with them over-capitalization, entailing an enormous amount of speculation and lying up capital in speculative enterprises. This question of monopolies will undoubtedly come up for settlement within the next decade or two, and it is the duty of all men, whether they believe in the theory or not, to study the question, and learn as much about it as possible...
...shot. Both Mr. Ross and Mr. Angell write earnestly, and Mr. Angell comes to a conclusion arrived at by a committee of the Faculty long ago--that there is too much lecturing for the outside work which the lectures demand. On the other hand, it is possible to overdo long personal conferences and "small meetings." They may, even more than lectures, explain what the student should discover for himself; and they may require of the professor more hours a day than the day contains. President Eliot is said to have observed that the trouble with the Garfield theory of Mark...