Word: sane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...metropolitan newspaper, printing such an article the day after the declaration of war, might have been suppressed. Yet it is the kind of sane and dispassionate writing that should be constantly before the public, even in war time, but above all in time of peace...
...football protected and its vices extirpated by friends of the game before its foes are given justification for demanding and accomplishing its death." That is also the platform of Harvard as set forth by President Lowell and applied by Director of Athletics Bingham. It is the platform of every sane man who has been advocating reform of intercollegiate football for the past year. In general principles then Harvard and Dartmouth, President Lowell, President Hopkins, and Mr. Bingham, are all in whole hearted agreement...
...sane Horace has discovered a new boor...
...convinced that the situation is terrifying or even extraordinary. It does not seem much more sane to find an underlying cause for twenty-six suicides, than to try to prepare vital statistics from twenty-six isolated deaths. Nor are we sure that the percapita suicide pate is higher in colleges now than it was say twenty years ago. It approximates about one suicide to 5,000 students. It is not at all surprising that increase in the gross number of suicides should come with the tremendous increase in the number of students in college. Furthermore, even a per capita increase...
...Crimson track mentor found four out of the five innovations sane and commendable. Three of these changes in the rulings had to do with the hurdle events. The point was made at the convention that a runner who knocks down most of his hurdles suffered a sufficient handicap for not clearing them cleanly, so it was voted to do away with the rule disqualifying a hurdler for upsetting the barriers. A false start in a hurdle event has hither to been penalized by setting the runner back a yard. It was decided, however, that this penalty was too sever...