Word: tempts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...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...
Aside from its instructive value, the road work provides physical exercise suitable for a Sunday afternoon. An invigorating breath of air and the inspiration of the military band tempt even the most phlegmatic nature; and the actual marching will not cover more than an hour...
...position of primary importance. Admit the disciplinarian's point of view, and you admit that young men can only progress under very hard taskmasters or as slaves on the athletic field to a physical, in the classroom to a mental, ideal. This ideal our colleges must make clear and tempting to the minds of their students. And now we come to the weakness of disciplinarians--that it is not they at all but rather the idealists who are truly able to inculcate ideals, to tempt men, old or young, toward the shining vision of liberated intelligence which is the goal...
...function of a university press has often been misunderstood and has sometimes been interpreted in widely different ways. The need for such a press lies in the fact that some of the most creditable work of the foremost scholars of the world is not sufficiently profitable commercially to tempt the regular publisher. A subsidized institution, however, specially organized to deal with books of this character, can do much to advance scholarship by making possible the prompt publication and wide dissemination of the results of scientific research. Such a press can also advance the prestige of the University by issuing over...
...inexplicable that the prospect of a large profit from selling his Yale football tickets may now and then tempt a student to disregard his scruples and his risk of being blacklisted, in order to make money. But the menace of the blacklist in case of detection proves to be a very effective deterrent. It is a pity that some similar penalty cannot be devised for those who violate their status as guests of the Senior Class on Class Day by selling or giving away their Yard tickets to speculators and outsiders. The fact that a nominal sum to help meet...