Word: showings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that they may,--and in the normal course of events do,--graduate. Mr. Larrabee in an article on college journalism finds that undergraduate publications do not lay inordinate stress upon athletics, and that the student's desire for such reading matter in his less concentrated hours does not show a lack of proportion in his interests; and thrusts the question of lopsidedness back upon the athletes who provide the show. It may still be doubted, however, whether the all-absorbing two months' football season does not create too great a hiatus in serious work...
...records of the 47 years of intercollegiate football show Princeton and Rutgers as the pioneer teams in the game, both these institutions having begun play...
...records show, however, that the University of Pennsylvania, which did not take up football until 1878, has played the greatest number of games. The Quakers have engaged in 423 contests since that date. Of these 303 have been won, 104 lost, and 16 tied. Yale is second, having played 394 games since 1872, of which 345 have been won, 30 lost, and 19 tied. University elevens have participated in 369 games since 1874, of which 311 have been won, 48 lost, and 10 tied...
...interesting report, published in the New York Evening Post, Dr. Joseph E. Raycroft, head of the department of hygiene and physical education at Princeton, shows the wise scale upon which intramural athletics have been applied at Princeton. Through the efforts of Dr. Raycroft and his assistants, combined with the hearty co-operation of the students, nearly every student is engaged at one time or another in some form of physical exercise. An association whose membership contains representation from all the classes, the upper class clubs, and the commons, appears to be unique among universities. The body is interested in fourteen...
...establish a great military and naval force without formulating a distinct foreign policy is a half-measure. The danger for this country is not that we shall have a force without an object. We have a very definite foreign policy, a policy which perhaps we have yet to show contains no menace towards other nations, but we are pitiably lacking in power to enforce...