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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Loafing may be a very good thing or a very bad thing. There are three varieties of loafing. There is that which is unadulterated and continuous, and which soon eliminates one from membership in the University. There is the kind which is mixed with a little work; it is neither work nor play, but a pale concoction of both. This kills efficiency, contentment, and self-respect. Then there is the valuable sort; it is "scientific loafing." It comes in intervals of recuperation and inspiration between hours of concentrated effort. This makes for efficiency; it makes play more enjoyable because earned...
...moral discipline" when he objects that we do not desire to teach boys and young men the "implicit obedience" motif, rather we desire them to think and act for themselves as men, not as units in a machine. Is not the regimentation of men into machines the very thing Americans fear and deplore in the Prussian scheme of organization...
Over 30 boxing enthusiasts gathered in the Trophy Room of the Union last evening to discuss plans for the proposed boxing tournament. The number that attended and the interest shown made the tentative program a thing of certainty and only the final completion of the arrangements for the tournament is left to be carried...
...seem real to him; he needs a dash of physical effort and even risk. And there is nothing, at present, except the more strenuous phases of athletics that can supply this want. If the college man's play looks to an outsider like the most earnest and whole-hearted thing that he ever does, it is because this play is at present his best substitute for "experience," and for that kind of "reality" which pain and hard training rub in. I take the development of athletics as a sign that the instincts of American college students are sound; that they...
...defects, I think most of us would agree upon. It gives too few a chance for the real thing (together with an overdose for some). And it doesn't link up with anything more substantial. Military training meets both these deficiencies. It is capable of taking care of the entire student body. And it is linked up with the life of the nation. In fact it is, or can be made, an actual piece of the nation's life. It is the natural counterpart of the years of study, and an excellent supplement to athletics as they...