Word: saneness
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...competing for sport managerships in as great numbers as formerly. Changes in the system have to be made and the work has to be lessened in order to draw men out. Extra-curricular offices are less enticing because of the greater interest in the regular college work. The increasing sane attitude towards athletics is also evidence of this reawakened scholastic endeavor...
...Department of Commerce publishes statistics to prove that over 80 percent of the fatal airplane accidents are due directly to human failure. We lament fatal accidents and condole grieving relatives: but we also point out that these are avoidable. Proper training, sane flying, and a bit of reflection will obviate most of these accidents: also due consideration will not always lay the blame on aviation as a dangerous pastime not to be indulged in by college undergraduates. The Dartmouth
...businessman who would rationalize into the future, Dean Donham's discussion of "Foresight and its Elements" sets forth a sane method of logic. But the meat of the book comes when he asks & answers this crucial question: "How can we as business men, within the areas for which we are responsible, best meet the needs of the American people, most nearly approximate supplying their wants, maintain profits, handle problems of unemployment, face the Russian challenge, and at the same time aid Europe and contribute most to or disturb least the cause of International Peace...
...Parting comment of retiring Senator Arthur Robinson Gould of Maine: "No sane business man should go into the U. S. Senate as long as that confounded clack is going...
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...