Word: saner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have not been worth publishing. Some of the most intelligent men in the University have written on such subjects as the conversion of the chapel into a hockey rink, and the establishment within the University of an institute for the dissemination of birth control devices. There were also some saner subjects discussed, but they were purely limited in interest and related to the author's own particular field. Among them was one on aesthetics in a communistic state. The editors in general have been surprised at the lack of interest by men in college on such important topics as vital...
...that efforts to clamp down on the free expression of undergraduate opinion deserved a plain and speedy answer. Such incldents as these, and the ill-feeling and organized protest stirred up, show not nearly the touchiness and independence of the student body, but more particularly the need of a saner policy on the part of the college and student councils in place of the present stubborn and antagonistic attitude...
Finally, the writer recommends without question the advisability of parents forbidding their sons to take part in 'American football'--thus encouraging participation in a much safer and saner game, namely, 'English rugby' football or 'soccer' football, or both, which, when understood and well played, will be generally and genuinely loved by Americans...
...summary: YALE HARVARD Nikkel, Dickson, l.f. r.f., Holland, Schrocder Saner, Larsen, Bender, McGowan, r.f. l.f., Baskervill, Pattison, Matursevitch...
...annual conference at Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass. (TIME, Sept. 14). The Service recommended that "an organized effort" be made to discourage business men and public officials from setting college education as criteria for employment. Instead of the present "overemphasis on purely intellectual occupations," let there be a "saner appreciation of the dignity of manual labor and other practical work." Universities should not lower their standards in order to maintain present enrolments...