Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...proper arrangement of their courses prefer instead to take four years, and that the chance of taking part in athletics for an extra year is the principal inducement to such men, is not so easy of proof. We venture to assert, however, that the cases in which, for the sake of athletics, men take an unnecessary year to get their degrees are more numerous than the case in which men are lost to the teams by leaving College ahead of the majority of their class...
...seem that an undergraduate who prefers to spend a year of his college course in needless study merely for the sake of "making" a certain team, or of playing an extra year on a team of which he is already a member, sets a low value on his time. It is rather an indication of the high value that is put on athletic honors-an exaggerated value, perhaps, but one that finds general acceptance...