Word: prone
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...applause won by the two forms of activity in college, for few men at any age are so self-con- tained as to be impervious to apparent estimates of success on the part of the general public. But there is another cause for the distortion of values. Undergraduates are prone to believe that athletic sports are a good measure of red blood, while high rank in studies indicates only industrious plodding. They often rate the two occupations much as savages do hunting and husbandry. That athletics develop essential moral qualities is undoubtedly true; but that is no sufficient reason...
...University of Pennsylvania on Thursday evening by the score of 459 to 432, out of a possible 500. Each team shot at home and sent its targets to its opponent for comparison in scoring. Every man had 50 shots, standing, at a 50-yard target and 50 shots, prone, at 75 yards distance, G. A. Smith of Pennsylvania made the best score, with 97 out of a possible...
...individual records, with the standing score followed by the prone score, are as follows...