Word: planning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...recent article for one of the University of Pennsylvania publications Dean William McClellan, Chairman of the University Council on Athletics proposes an interesting plan for the elimination of many of the evils of present day sports at colleges, and particularly those which arise during the football season. His main theme is that forming alliances of colleges of corresponding size for athletic purposes and thus doing away with the so-called "practice" games between large and small institutions, on the theory that these contests tempt the smaller teams to violate the ethics of college sports in order to foster strength...
...season is short and that teams cannot travel back and forth without limit. There would be no danger to two big teams playing early in the season because the development of the teams would be equal, inasmuch as practice starts about the same time everywhere. The details of the plan are too complex to be settled by one person. Particulars reference is made to football because the play is so strenuous that games cannot be multiplied at will...
According to the above letters, Senator Lodge intends to limit the discussion to the specific plan adopted by the Peace Conference, while President Lowell desires that a broad interpretation be given to those articles...
...have received your letter of March 6. I expect to be in Boston next week and shall be very happy to meet you then and arrange for a public discussion of the plan for the League of Nations agreed upon by the commission of the Peace Conference, which has lately been published in this country...
...short a period has passed since the inauguration of this plan to determine whether it has helped improve the friendship between England and America. It is safe to say, however, that when fifty years have produced large numbers of Rhodes scholars in every state of the Union, there will be no doubt that the mutual understanding of national ideas produces national friendship which no complications can sever. So the scholarships offer an unparalleled opportunity today for public spirited...