Word: tends
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...proposed changes. The event last year was much in the nature of an experiment, and the actual competition showed where there might be improvement in the future. The main idea is still adhered to, that of making the games anything but a championship affair, and the recommendations all tend to this fact...
...allowed some of these sporting attitudes to be imposed upon it. The undergraduates' gladiatorial contests proceed under faculty supervision and patronage. Alumni contribute their support to screwing up athletic competition to the highest semiprofessional pitch. They lend their hallowing patronage to fraternity life and other college institutions which tend to emphasize social distinction. And the college administration, in contrast to the European scheme, has turned the college into a sort of race with a prize at the goal. The degree has become a sort of honorific badge for all classes of society, and the colleges have been forced to give...
...they are in Europe. The charge that undergraduate interest in public affairs is more of the sportsman's interest in men and candidates than in movements is of doubtful validity. The Forums last year, in which prohibition, the war, the administration, and other such matters were heatedly discussed, tend to refute it; and public affairs as well as men are often the subject of argument at undergraduate tables...
...team this year or not, shall have this opportunity to take part in a final intra-college competition, with such handicaps that everybody who enters will have as nearly as possible an equal chance to win a place. The committee hopes that this meet, by providing an object, will tend to keep everybody out even after the team has been selected. Many of the men who do not make the team this year are the ones who must be relied on to represent the University later, and the experience and training they will get by keeping up their work through...
...average of the early one-year men. The high average salary--&1450--received by the twenty-eight men in last year's two-year class compared with the much lower average of the one-year men leaving last June quite likely shows the difference in immediate returns which will tend to separate the full-course students from the specials...