Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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However, it can be emphatically stated that the athletic heart when subjected to the careful investigation of instruments of precision is usually shown to be a normal heart. A good proportion of the oarsmen examined had been told previously for one reason or another that they were suffering from athletic hearts; yet our investigation failed to confirm the presence of any abnormality that was not entirely consistent with a normal heart...
...county. We might hope to achieve a new rating also in the eyes of those Southern professors who would come to the North in exchange. Their gracious courtesy has ever been open to fresh conviction. If exchange professorships can be arranged with the South we shall have much reason for mutual congratulation...
...advantage of men joining the unit now rather than later cannot be urged too strongly. Some comment has been made about Military Science 1 counting as a half-course. Since every half-course in College is theoretically supposed to require nine hours' work including lectures, there is no reason for thinking that the work of the unit should count for a full course when it merely fulfills the official requirements of a reguition half-course...
This country will probably soon be at war with Germany. If a war be necessary to uphold the recognized rights of our nation, as it now seems to be, thinking men--and that includes undergraduates--have a difficult but a great duty to perform; that is, to preserve reason and calm judgment when the passions of the unthinking are sweeping them away; it is to remember throughout a conflict its true cause and not to permit childish credulity and unreasoning desire to blind the nation into waging a barbaric war of hate and revenge, blood-lust and conquest...
...very clearly in the case of the small college. Frequently a small college can get together eleven good football players, nine good baseball players, seven good hockey players, and as long as these first teams play against the first teams of larger colleges they often meet with success. The reason so many small colleges have good baseball teams is because in baseball substitutes are seldom needed...