Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...great intercollegiate game, but rather one which exemplifies the new spirit of athletic relations. It will not be heralded by the great preparations of previous years. It will be characterized, on the contrary, not only by friendly intercollegiate rivalry, but by a genuine feeling of sport for sport's sake...
...horror's head horrors accumulate." In this age of insurgence social and aesthetic it is natural for them to seek novel effects for novelty's sake, preferring a bad new use to a good old one, just as vicious people crave new sensations. With due allowance for these tendencies of youth and of the decade, this number of the Advocate is creditable; its ambitions are worthy; its attainments are not mean; and it is much better than some of its predecessors. L. B. R. BRIGGS...
...revived during the approaching season are welcome. The seriousness of our entrance into the world war was nowhere more deeply appreciated than in collegiate and amateur athletics. The leading men on the gridiron and the diamond disappeared from their wonted places to take up the grimmer game for the sake of country. Nine of the ten ranking tennis players of 1916 are enlisted in the service of the nation, and the tenth is indispensably engaged in the manufacture of munitions. But it is now appreciated that the maintenance of the standards of our amateur athletics is of great importance...
...trouble. By one such example, however, it is possible to inculcate especially in those affected some notion that they are citizens of a nation in arms. Few of us have really felt the "pinch of war," yet if we show ourselves willing to undergo a slight trouble for the sake of a principle most irrefutably correct, we begin to see our position. Everyone who is compelled to check waste on a large scale will voluntarily be more careful in small matters. Not only because of actual gain, but also because of the principle involved, vote for a change...
dents who because of youth or of physical defects are kept out of active military life. We still encourage such contests, for the sake of exercise, discienergy; but we believe that in these times military training comes before athletics, and claims more than divided allegiance. We believe, also, that such public spectacles as our games with Yale and Princeton are unbecoming now, when the friends and comrades of the participants are at the front, or on their way to it, and in imminent danger of a soldier's death. Whether a modified and less formal kind of contest than...