Word: rest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...executive committee of the Harvard Mission, made up of Professor E. C. Moore, Dr. Endicott Peabody, Mr. A. S. Johnson '85, R. H. Oveson '05, J. M. Groves '05 and sixteen undergraduates. One or two men from each of the professional schools will probably go, and the rest of the delegation will be made up of undergraduates...
...cost of these promotions and increases of salary will amount in the current year to about $65,000, which is nearly two-thirds of the annual income from the fund. The rest of the income must be reserved for the maintenance of the new scale, the cost of which will be greatly increased by promotions which will be made during the next ten years, as half of the teachers, practically all of whom are members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, are less than forty-one years of age, and only one-thirteenth of them are over sixty...
...affirmative. The comparison between the football and the flag is apt, he said. Many have died for both. Our opponents say that we have cited but one instance of foul play in the recent Harvard-Yale game. This is true, only one instance can be sighted, the rest were hidden. The recent resolution of the Rules Committee in Philadelphia has shown that even authorities on the subject admit the existence of brutality. It is worded "to eliminate the chances of rough play, and to lessen brutality." If the negative can support the arguments which they have brought forward they...
...tell you how they have been completely exhausted by their undergraduate "efforts to win," and how as a result their constitutions are weakened. The men who play football today must choose football without training, with its chances of injury and possible death, or training and constitutional weakness for the rest of their days. This training requires all except five hours out of the twenty-four. Is this a benefit
...relief from the imperative "ought," said Mr. Crothers, comes recreation as a rest from excess of responsibility. Without play we should seen reach the limit of elasticity the power of healthful reaction after work which makes work possible. The touchstone for recreation is the word "wholesome." So long as recreation restores our bodily power and our capacity for seeing things in proportion, we need not inquire as to its ethics. Any recreation which is really restful can do no harm. The trouble today, the speaker said, is that play is made, not a rest from work, but an added burden...