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...Intercollegiate football is injurious to the players. - (a) Physically. - (1) Liability to overwork. - (2) Nervous strain. - (3) Liability to injuries. - (b) Intellectually. - (1) Takes excessive amount of time. - (2) Takes excessive amount of thought. - (x) Total preoccupation before the great games. - (c) Morally. - (1) Encourages extravagance. - (2) Leads to vulgar notoriety. - (3) Engenders ill feeling between colleges. - (4) Dulls the sense of honor. - (5) Dulls the feeling and has a brutalizing influence. - (6) Establishes false ideals. - (x) Physical force placed above intellectual and moral qualities...
...would be prejudicial to state interests. - (a) It would confer the franchise upon persons unfitted for politics: Nation, VIII, 88, X, 205; Forum, IV, 2. - (1) Physically. - (2) By temperament. - (3) By susceptibility to undue influence. - (b) It would greatly increase the number of illiterate and unqualified voters: Forum II, 429; New Englander XLIII, 207. - (1) The women who would use it belong to the lowest classes in our cities. - (2) Competent women would not use it. - (c) It would give rise to lax laws and weaken the government: Forum IV, 1-5. - (1) Laws must be sanctioned by physical...
...Tyler, D. D., of New York, preached last evening in Appleton Chapel on "Christianity in its Relation to Culture," taking his text from Luke X...
...More ships are authorized: Boston Herald, Mar. 5, 1895. - (c) No analogy with European navies - (1) Small commerce. - (2) No colonies. - (3) Isolation. - (d) War is not probable. - (1) No strong neighbors. - (2) European nations desire peace with U. S. - (w) Respect our neutrality. - (x) War with U. S. would precipitate general European war. - (y) Great foreign investments in U. S. - (z) Arbitration probable...
...Free registry involves grave evils.-(a) Economic. (1) It would annihilate ship-building in U. S.-(2) It would withdraw millions of capital from the country.-(b) National.-(1) It would cripple us in time of war.-(x) No trained workmen.-(y) No shipyards to build in emergency...