Word: sound
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...rules which will bring athletics down to their proper level. The sooner the students learn that athletics are not the chief aim of the University and that the University is not small or great as it loses or wins athletic contests, the sooner they will show sound sense in the matter. The new rules will preclude the possibility of a man's coming here simply for athletics and when men are on athletic teams they will have to keep up their regular college work. This practically reduces the evils of our athletics to a minimum, and for the present these...
...alone is very significant and very gratifying. There has been an undoubted tendency in the last few years to neglect gymnasium work for athletic games, and so far has that tendency gone that there is danger of entirely losing sight of the idea of exercise for the sake of sound bodies; the idea of athletics for the sake of beating Yale has become the all-important thing. The training for athletic teams is now carried to such a point that it becomes a long physical strain which is quite beyond the endurance of the average student, and the severity...
Waving the grand old banner Crimson. And we'll sound the name of Harvard in a grand triumphant...
Much has been said in the papers of late about "slugging" in football, some of it sound sense, some of it harmless opinion, much of it going far to defeat its own purpose because of its ignorance. The gist of it all is this, that there has been too much "slugging" this year, and that something ought to be done to stop it. With these two main ideas we quite agree. The recent development of the various mass plays where many of the players are hidden from view has undoubtedly done much to render easy the settlement of private grudges...
...Issue of state bank notes is desirable. (a) Before the war many state banks issued sound notes. (b) State bank-notes could be made safe. (1) The government would accept for taxes only notes sufficiently secured. Harter, Forum, vol. XII. (2) Inflation is preventable by a tax on circulation above a fixed maximum...