Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Speaking of the Lusitania affair he said: "The present incident if correctly represented is a crime against civilization, world order, and international law. Unless Germany makes all reparations we must either follow a policy of absolute isolation, or go to war for the sake of humanity...
...important part played by Prussia in the unifying of what once was a mass of over three hundred principalities. The fundamental principles of German political philosophy, he said, are authority, liberty, and duty. These ideas run through all the forms of German public activity, and it is for their sake that the Teutonic allies are now fighting. Some time was devoted to an explanation of the army system ,which is believed by all Germans to be beneficial. The fundamental idea here is again duty. It is the feeling of every man in the fighting machine that he owes his services...
There has always been one great objection to American football, -- that it was not a game, but a profession; that unlike baseball it could not be played for the sake of the game itself. "Scrub" baseball is admittedly possible, witness the success of the Leiter Cup series, but scrub football has been hitherto untried. This year however, the Haughton Cup is to be given for football, precisely as the Leiter Cup for baseball. Not only is there a chance for those who like the game, yet are not of University calibre, but there is also the opportunity to secure first...
...Sports clearly purposes to eradicate the practice sometimes indulged in by prominent athletes, of renting their names to the sporting columns of newspapers. To many this practice savors of professionalism while to others it appreciably lowers their estimation of sportsmanship as inculcated in the phrase "sport for sport's sake." The new rule will do away with any abuses without interfering with legitimate newspaper correspondence by men engaged in athletics...
...this time, out of a class of 640, only 380 Seniors have returned the Secretary's "lives", and only 420 have sent in the postals. For the sake of class unity, and to preserve their connection with it, all Seniors are urged to send in "lives" and postals at an early date...