Word: sanely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Mr. Bingham came to Harvard, he set several major tasks for himself. One of these was to get rowing back to a healthy condition, under which the Harvard undergraduates who wished to take exercise on the river might do so with sufficient equipment, sane supervision, and adequate coaching. In all these things, Mr. Bingham has succeeded tolerably well. The fact that rowing today attracts more followers among undergraduates than any other sport is convincing proof that there can be nothing seriously wrong with the present organization of the sport...
...rivalries will be relieved. It seems clear that a careful balancing of the two will have to be achieved. Perhaps the prospect of dual meetings between Harvard houses and Yale "colleges" will offer sufficient stimulus to carry on the sports successfully and at the same time in a more sane and proper relation to the college curriculum...
...Mellon letter clearly foreshadowed a Hoover veto. But upon Congress it acted as no deterrent. Speaker Longworth pronounced the Bacharach bill "sane, sensible and conservative" and "one guess as good as another" on its cost. Secretary Mellon was loudly flayed for painting too gloomy a picture, was reminded that his dire prediction about the effects of the original Bonus act in 1924 had never materialized. The Ways & Means Committee in its report on H. R. 17054 argued that "there is no way to determine accurately just what the cost 'will be." Against Secretary Mellon's "potential liability...
...Universam Creaturam: "Quia arcano Dei consilio succedimus in locum Principis Apostolorum, corum nempe quorum doctrina et praedicatio jussu divino ad omnes gentes et omnem creaturam destinata est et quia primi in loco ipso mira sane ope Marconiana uti fruipossumus, ad omnia et omnes primo nos convertimus, atque, hie et infra, sacro textu juvante, dicimus...
...players and the care bestowed on first string men are are too well known. But in the gradual attempt to put sports on the mythical healthy basis, the combined and sometimes dissociated efforts of players, athletic heads, and faculty officials produce a continual advance in building up a sane athletic program...