Word: small
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...taken into consideration as representative of one phase of the best opinion in America. Naturally I am not suggesting that Harvard undergraduates can have any great effect upon important national decisions, but I do most seriously suggest that the opinion of Harvard College does count--and however small its influence may be, it should not be withheld, especially with conditions as they are now. "Politics are for the politicians," said a certain Harvard professor some years ago. That day has passed. If the thinking people, the educated people, the people with the courage to stand up for their convictions...
...elimination of many of the evils of present day sports at colleges, and particularly those which arise during the football season. His main theme is that forming alliances of colleges of corresponding size for athletic purposes and thus doing away with the so-called "practice" games between large and small institutions, on the theory that these contests tempt the smaller teams to violate the ethics of college sports in order to foster strength to beat the larger institutions...
...team, is to strive to win that particular game because of a certain prestige which victory will assure them. Certainly the development of such a team is not normal. Moreover, the temptation has been too powerful to be overcome, and strong players have been enticed to small institutions by means which would not bear publication. It is to the credit of American college sport that on the whole small institutions have resisted this temptation...
Certainly there can be small hope for peace in the future if the Allies of today, fresh from fighting side by side amidst the most cordial relations, fall out over an affair of so comparatively little magnitude. If the Great Powers become disaffected now for such a reason, what will happen in fifty years, when vital economic interests may be at stake...
...much stress cannot be put upon statistics during such an unusual year as this. The figures reveal a healthy representation from without New England, and it would be hard to duplicate the showing in any other university. Yet the numbers recruited from other states than Massachusetts is far too small when the opportunities offered are considered...