Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...members of the Junior class are urged to attend the class smoker in the Dining Room of the Union this evening at 8.30 o'clock. Facts of vital importance in regard to Yard Rooms for 1906-1907 will be given...
...growth from insignificant contests to the great game of today, in which keen and friendly rivals struggle for supremacy. We must, therefore, as must the gentlemen from Princeton, spread out this institution, examine it on all sides and in all lights, find in it all those qualities which are vital, and determine its essential characteristics, whether they be good or bad. And when we have examined this institution called intercollegiate football both in the light of adverse criticism and in the light of praise and have determined its characteristics, we must balance off those that are good against those evil...
...that the game is detrimental to those who do participate; first, to the player's general health; second to his intellectual development. Violent training, necessary to so violent a game, causes physical exhaustion and does lasting injury to circulation digestion, and nutrition. Muscle gained at the sacrifice of the vital organs is worse than useless. Then fatalities are a part of the price paid for the sport. In spite of precautionary training numerous and serious accidents have resulted. Statistics show that at Harvard, Columbia and Princeton one-quarter of the players are injured, more or less permanently...
...second place the present game and training is detrimental to the player's mental activity. This is of vital importance. A Harvard publication says that men during the season do next to nothing in their studies, President Eliot says that the distractions of the game grow greater every year, and a prominent member of this year's Harvard team says that for the past two years University football has played havoc with his studies. Twenty-one colleges in Iowa and Illinois have passed a resolution to the effect that American football as now played is not suitable for educational institutions...
...diet, confirmed already on a limited scale, should prove true on a universal scale, it is impossible to overestimate their revolutionary import. Mr. Fletcher is one of the most original and "sympathetic" personalities whom Massachusetts in our day has produced. His teaching and example have been of such vital benefit to certain persons whom I know, that I feel as if every student ought to give himself the benefit of this rare opportunity. WILLIAM JAMES...