Word: sane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...break has come; the incident is closed. The Princetonian sees no reason why both Harvard and Princeton cannot go their separate ways maintaining the same high standards of athletics that have characterized their policies in the mutual band of the Big Three. Sane and wholesome athletics must be and will be the goal...
There can be but one definite, sane, and satisfactory conclusion to all that has been said and written in the last few days about the Princeton-Harvard game, namely, that immediate action be taken to return that game to its place as an athletic contest between friendly and ancient rivals, two venerable and dignified American universities. It is too easy to make verbal gestures, either of derision or understanding and sympathetic cooperation toward a common end; it is often too difficult to let such gestures give way before adequate and conclusive action...
...eating conditions. With this installation of club tables an actual step has been taken toward a permanent system of this kind on a larger scale. Thus it is obvious that those who wish to see a central eating place, run by the University, where food can be obtained at sane prices and eaten in congenial surroundings in a fashion far removed from the tile armed manner so prevalent now will be doing themselves and those who follow them at Harvard a great service by trying out the Union-plan...
...look forward to the time when they may be free to do public service. Futile it is to point to the unattractive characteristics of present political campaigns until the competition for public office becomes so intense that none but the intelligent, those who treat public life in a sane way, remain in the running...
...Ph.D. degree, is, in itself, so grand an attack upon the status quo that it is going in any way to deploy the instruction of graduates at the universities into other channels. Yet both are being so widely disseminated, supposedly in the interest of truth, that some sane critique of their real worth is exceedingly necessary...