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Word: sakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...engagements. It was suggested that the players be allowed to practice football instead of attending one of the drill periods for the remaining few weeks of the football season, but the military officials would not allow it, although the naval leaders had no objection to the plan. For the sake of consistency neither unit gave the players time off and the members of the team had to practice as best they could...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY TO BATTLE TUFTS IN STADIUM | 11/8/1918 | See Source »

...either. If a person has the money for the former he surely has enough also to contribute to the latter. Those who cannot buy a bond, however, ought surely to make some small sacrifice in order to gain the benefits of a capable Y. M. C. A. For the sake of Phillips Brooks House, and for the improvement of the S. A. T. C. contribute your share...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PHILLIPS BROOKS HOUSE. | 10/4/1918 | See Source »

...curtain falls on the first year of war-time sport. Looking back over the seasons, the University can hardly rejoice over its record. We have been unfortunate in every sport but rowing and we have plenty of cause for disappointment. But somehow the idea of sport solely for the sake of winning has disappeared; the mania for victory left us at the outbreak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATHLETIC COURTESY | 6/3/1918 | See Source »

...which we have been wont to treat our visitors. Little courtesies help to establish a better relationship between colleges and other universities, including Harvard, would do well to follow in the Tigers tracks. With all its evils it has taken the war to teach what sport for sport's sake means...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATHLETIC COURTESY | 6/3/1918 | See Source »

...seeing its teams cut down to a "war-strength" squad and their batting order shows a similar lack of veterans. As athletic contests the Saturday competitions are bound to fall down in comparison to former years' battles. Yet now we are beginning to see "sport for sport's sake"; the days of highly paid coaches and intensively trained teams seem passed. Men now play games between recitations and drills; the snap-course athlete is a type that has disappeared once...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRINCETON | 5/24/1918 | See Source »

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