Word: proves
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...then: The attempt of the A. A. U. to make registration general in its effect on college athletes has put a check on amateur sport. An examination of the entry lists of recent contests held under the A. A. U. rules is sufficient to prove this. Further, college opinion has so crystallized that the I. C. A. A. A. A. has demanded as its rights "absolute exemption of all its members from the registration scheme of the A. A. U." There the matter stands. The Intercollegiate Association is far from wishing a break with...
...Monday's issue we expressed unqualified approval of the arrangements for the Princeton debate trials, as calculated to prove useful in furnishing training, in bringing out the different sides of the question, and at last in ensuring the choice of the best men. These are undoubted advantages, but with them there seems to be a possible disadvantage which must be guarded against. This is that as they entail so much more effort than the single five minute trial of the old system, a number of men may be discouraged from competing in the present trials...
...wish to call attention to this possible drawback to a system otherwise so promising, and to express a hope that such apprehension will prove groundless. It would certainly be unfortunate if after the care expended in formulating a plan intended to enable the judges to make unquestionable selections with greater facility, the number of candidates for the team were to fall below the standards of the past. If such proves to be the case, the advantages accruing from a more minute treatment of the question under the three steps of the new system will hardly justify its permanent adoption...
...felt that taking Sophomore debating as a whole the centralizing of class interest in one organization will prove beneficial, since the absence of faculty instruction in that class makes it possible to keep such an organization on an effective footing. Moreover it seems that with a Sophomore club representative of the best talent in the class, contests with equally representative Freshman teams will arouse greater interest, be more hotly contested, and thus raise the standard. Thus plainly the provision is in favor of the existing class clubs...
...congratulated in their acquisition of a permanent coach and one so competent as Mr. Loeffler. With his aid and by adopting a stricter policy in regard to membership, the standard of the orchestra promises to be higher in the future. Moreover assurance of good training will doubtless prove an attraction...