Word: powers
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...relief from the imperative "ought," said Mr. Crothers, comes recreation as a rest from excess of responsibility. Without play we should seen reach the limit of elasticity the power of healthful reaction after work which makes work possible. The touchstone for recreation is the word "wholesome." So long as recreation restores our bodily power and our capacity for seeing things in proportion, we need not inquire as to its ethics. Any recreation which is really restful can do no harm. The trouble today, the speaker said, is that play is made, not a rest from work, but an added burden...
...attack of machine-like regularity has been evolved and its power was effectively demonstrated last week in the game against Princeton, when the climax in the development of the team seemed to have been reached. Although held down to six points in the first half, in the second period Yale three times carried the ball down the field by an irresistible attack, gaining from five to ten yards at a rush. The defense also proved powerful, Princeton losing the ball on downs on the 8-yard line after having been unable to gain a foot in three rushes. Only...
...tendency of recent legislation is to bring the governing bodies of the institutions to a common plane, in which the amount of political control is being steadily diminished, religious denominations are losing their influence, and wherein the graduates of the several institutions are coming into possession of power over them. He said that an American faculty almost always feels a strong sense of responsibility for the conduct of their students and gives much thought to the effects of their teachings and of the common academic life on the character of the student. He showed that the use of elementary subjects...
...Horace Fletcher, the well known writer on diet, gave a very practical talk last night in the Union on "The Power Behind the Man Machine...
...fierce competition of today, said Mr. Fletcher, when the smallest advantage is effective, superior personal efficiency is a power for success. This efficiency may be gained by economy of nutrition. The primitive man ate only when he was hungry, and he chewed his food thoroughly, because nature made it hard. The man of today eats when he is not really hungry, and because much of his food is liquid or soft, he does not chew it enough...