Word: risks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...charge of those contests, much of the talk against athletics would die a natural death. For the real danger in athletics is not physical, but moral. If a case against them is ever made out, it will not be because they kill a man now and then (though the risk of physical injury should be studiously reduced); it will be because they appear at times to paralyze the honor of contestants and spectators. I write as an enthusiastic believer in intercollegiate sports, who would see them not merely maintained, but maintained at such a level as shall keep them above...
...account. The recasting of the question makes it only slightly less offensive, and does not remove one of the most serious objections to advertising such an instance of bad taste. There are plenty of useful fields to which the Political Club might profitably turn its attention without running the risk of having the University credited with the ill-considered officiousness of a small group. The best thing that the Political Club can do now is to drop the whole idea of having a straw ballot...