Word: suffering
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...unfortunate for the cause of athletics whenever a man is prevented from taking part in intercollegiate sport by scholastic difficulties. It implies that a candidate for a University team is unable to do his academic work and his athletics at the same time, and his courses suffer. Were this the case there would be no athletics. The statement of the four major captains on another page, warning their men of probation and other evils, indicates not only a keen interest in the success of their teams but that they have a proper sense of the situation from the standpoint...
President Eliot delivered a lecture at the Prospect Union yesterday afternoon entitled: "Who suffers most from bad city government?" President Eliot pointed out that the class of men who earn from $600 to $900 a year are the ones that suffer most, because the more wealthy pay, a smaller proportion of their incomes for rent and can better afford to pay for articles that are lacking in poor city government, such as a good water supply and good schools. He also said that the remedy of these evils lies with this poorer class of men, for they control the majority...
...life as do the major sports, and their loss would be just as great to a large number of men. If curtailment there must be, which I do not for a moment grant, it seems to me radically unfair that the minor sports should be the only ones to suffer. It has always been urged against intercollegiate athletics that only a small number of men were able to participate. The proposed arrangement would increase, rather than diminish, this difficulty. We then come back to the original question: Is this the most satisfactory solution? Emphatically...
...natural that the minor sports, being the less important, should suffer, but this could more fairly have been done by restricting the number of their contests. CHAS. W. SHORT...
Week in and week out we suffer in our unventilated recitation and lecture rooms. Periodically the CRIMSON protests, while our instructors, forced to choose between asphyxia or competition with clattering steam pipes, either choose the former, or, without consideration one way or the other, stubbornly disregard the first rules of hygiene. Where clear thinking is demanded, clear air is the last consideration...