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...belong to the highest rank of undergraduate aristocracy, unless he is supported by his father or guardian". In such fashion does the New York Times cast doubt upon the wisdom of the "present purging". And although we recognize that such a danger is possible if the purification be carried ad absurdum, the true value of amateur rulings depends not on their phrasing or their explicitness but upon the spirit in which they are enforced...
...able to impress his personality immediately on great numbers of experienced men; he will not be able to achieve the millenium in a minute; he will have a hard time making even desirable changes. It will be slow work. Anybody can sit at a desk and create Utopias ad lib. We must remember that the law stating that momentum equals mass times velocity applies as well in politics as in physics, and that a man speaking for a million voters, the leader of a great party, can not always move as rapidly as a man speaking only for himself...
...consider it a drudge, would give up the whole thing, and go out for some other sport. The track and crew men, of course, have to keep fairly strict training, but even so, they have not yet found the need of training tables where red meat is served up ad lib. They live a natural life...
...country, and in America also, to be practiced not for the sake of the sport itself, but for the sake of public renown and advertisement. The development of sport on these lines can be clearly traced in the histories both of ancient Greece and Rome, and the parallel produced ad absurdum ends in the gladiatorial show. . . . It cannot be denied that the way to produce the best athlete and the best player is to encourage the professional if only to create and maintain a standard by which all who go in for sport may measure their own performance...
...steps by which China proposes to regain her financial autonomy are as follows--first an increase in customs duties from a theoretical five per cent ad valorem to an actual twelve-and-a-half. Only a day or so ago the Japanese refused to assent to a compromise rate offered by Canada at seven-and-a-half per cent. Last year she succeeded in blocking a proposal to revise the tariff schedule to bring about an effective five per cent, guaranteed to China by treaty (whatever that may signify...