Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...organized scouting, do you realize what it is? As conditions now exist everything is entirely understood between colleges, everything is entirely above board. We send tickets for scouts to other colleges and they do the same to us. If this is stopped nothing will prevent graduates from sending back information informally, and where now it entails nothing but the best of feeling, there would be suspicion and misunderstandings which would not add to the best interests of the game...
...third and fourth provisions of the platform are designed to meet two troubles. If the statements of source of income are honestly filled out, it will be possible to prevent participation in athletics by anyone who is receiving a so-called athletic scholarship or who is being sent to college to play on the teams by some well-meaning but misguided alumnus. It is almost a corollary to this that no scholarship should be given a man without that fact being made public, and without the approval of the college authorities. The transfer athlete, or "tramp...
...injured that it is inadvisable for that individual to play further, he can of course see that substitutions are made as they become necessary; as a matter of fact, the doctor is now the person on whom this decision rests. A rule of this sort would prevent only communication between the coach and the players who may be substituted--in other words, would leave the playing of the contest entirely to the members of the team...
...that a man speaking for a million voters, the leader of a great party, can not always move as rapidly as a man speaking only for himself. The power of the organization of which he is the head gives tremendous strength to his movements, but its weight will prevent him from advancing very fast. No man who took part in the effort fifteen or twenty years ago to achieve an intelligent coaching system for Harvard football can fail to realize the difficulty of overcoming the inertia of a mass of people even in the best cause...
...statement is not idle sabrerattling, calculated to stir up the alarmists, and is not in the least catering to a militarist party. He asks merely for permanency and continuity in the army policy in order to make possible high standards of morale and efficiency, and he wants to prevent further reduction in numbers, because the present force is barely large enough. As it is planned, the overhead organization effective at present is not wholly for the administration of the regular army, but is planned as the fundamental frame-work of the regulars, the reserves, and the potentials,--these last being...