Word: reasonable
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...value of freedom as the great educator of man has always been one of President Eliot's beliefs. For this reason, he introduced the free elective system to allow every student to choose the subjects for which he felt a natural inclination. He realized that no work could be done happily and well which did not really interest the worker...
...There is no apparent reason, therefore, why the seven institutions listed above should not confine their games to each other. There can be no valid objection to any two of these institutions playing each other in the first game of the season. There would be schedule difficulties, of course, due to the fact that the 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...
...There is no reason why there should not be minor leagues in collegiate institutions just as there are elsewhere. As a matter of fact, even under present football rules, small institutions are not reasonable competitors for large institutions. I am such a thorough believer in intercollegiate competition that I find no difficulty in considering an Eastern league and a Western league of natural competitors, and I would leave opportunity for the winners to play at the end of the season on some neutral college ground or municipal stadium which would be conveniently accessible to both...
...similarity between the two men makes their appearance as opponents on the same platform all the more pertinent. Both members of old Massachusetts families, graduates of Harvard College and the Law School, well versed in questions of government and international relations, they have every reason for thinking in common. That two such men should differ on a matter of such transcending national consequence doubles the importance of their meeting tonight. It will be a battle royal...
...training table regularly, but only for a short time preceding games. There is one radical change in Princeton's schedule to be noted. Dartmouth, with whom Princeton's has played an annual game from 1907 to 1916. When formal athletics stopped, no longer appears on the schedule. The reason given was that too hard a schedule is not desired when formal athletics are resumed...