Word: views
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...light of public discussion the problem of eligibility for participation in intercollegiate athletic contests. The resolution that was passed, and which is to be brought before the annual meeting of this association in March, provides for the suspension of the famous one year rule. This resolution was passed in view of the fact that many athletes would otherwise be unjustly prevented from participating in sports when they returned to college this year. The resolution is excellent in principle, but such contemplated action would throw open the field of university competition to all Freshmen. For this reason the situation needs careful...
...Sappho, so simple and clear are the picture and the mood reflected therein. Other excellent verses, including two sonnets, some capital book reviews, and an amusing story, "Dolcezzo e Luce in Boston", which touches in desirable fashion on the province of the Lampoon, lend variety and breadth of view to the number...
With such a purpose in view, tennis has rather striking qualities for becoming a really popular sport, since its limitations are so few. The elementary principles of the game may be acquired in a few minutes, yet there is practically no limit to the advance which scientific study and constant practice may achieve. Again, while no athletic training or qualifications are necessary to begin with, the excellent training in the co-ordination of mind and muscle which the game furnishes is scarcely equaled by any other sport. And, finally, commencing with but two players, the number of available courts...
...suggested that the opposition which the idea raised in the individual almost totally offset the advantages of the training offered. Although we cannot express an opinion on the matter till a more definite plan is proposed, yet it would seem more reasonable to organize the new system with a view toward extending the opportunities rather than toward requiring the students to act against their inclinations...
Certain graduate opinion may incline toward the view that the physical development of large numbers of men is of greater importance than the defeat of Harvard and Princeton, but we feel that a series of defeats at their hands would quickly make clear the need of victory for its own sake and for its general stimulus to sport as a whole. --Yale News...