Word: tends
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...told that he was destined in after life to write a remarkable history, or to make a notable scientific discovery and would be shocked to hear that he was to be the best professional baseball player in the world; yet he often submits willingly to drudgery that would tend to prepare him for the latter, though recoiling from study that would fit him for intellectual work. This shows a disproportion between immediate ambition and relative permanent values, even as they stand in the mind of the undergraduate himself. Of course, the disproportion is due in large part to a contrast...
...long as the Board examinations offer a common avenue from the many schools to the many colleges the difficulty of the transition is reduced to a minimum. Except in a limited number of schools which send nearly all their boys to Harvard the Board examinations will probably tend more and more to displace the Harvard examinations...
...Resolved, That the football rules committee of this association be instructed to use every possible endeavor to bring about such a modification of the rules as shall in their judgment tend to reduce to a minimum the dangers of physical injuries to the players and at the same time retain, so far as possible, the most desirable and wholesome features of the game...