Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course has no brain, and it can only do certain things under certain conditions worked out previously by a human mind. The machine was built at the Westinghouse Laboratories to answer a definite need, but, unfortunately the publicity department heard about it, and what started out as a serious invention has turned into a vaudeville act. Televox now has three brothers who are being shown in different parts of the country...
...very many traces of the amalgamation may still be observed in present-day Japan. The modern Japanese Buddhist pantheon is quite an international assembly containing as it does Indian, Chinese and purely Japanese personages The Tibetan and Chinese pantheons are less international, but their composite character does nevertheless present serious problems to the student of mythology. Most of those problems still await a solution, and the histories of many divinities must be written before a complete Buddhist mythology can be composed. As a matter of fact Buddhist mythology presents a maze complicated by the different way in which the Indian...
...Haven team, and so on down even to an all New Jersey team, the cravings of the boys who love to fool themselves will be filled; and happily to relate everyone will be just where they were before the sporting public replaced a belief in Santa Claus with a serious minded acceptance of the infallibility of sportswriters...
Harvard, however, has been too consistently free from major injury of late years, and strikingly so in the season just passed, to owe her good fortune to the mere workings of chance. Few are the squads that can boast a broken finger as the most serious accident to any member during a whole season's play. But it is just this result which the Harvard system of training is designed to produce. Though the ninety minute practice established this fall contrasts sharply with the extended arc-lit sessions common in other institutions, the Harvard team was more successful than...
Added to the elimination of fatigue as a source of serious injury was the willingness of the Harvard coaches to abide by the decision of the squad surgeon in matters pertaining to the fitness of the players. Incapacitating injury is too often the result of aggrevated minor accident where instant diagnosis and treatment is not the rule. It is not by chance that the Harvard squad has been governed by a rigid code of training and conditioning; and correspondingly, it is not luck that keeps the names of Harvard men from the National roster of sacrifices to a great sport...