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...doubt these charges were exaggerated, but they rested on a slight basis of truth. In those halcyon days, tradition assures us, there was a mighty respect paid the wealthy student, however little he deserved it as an individual. The man who could afford to appear at a football game in a fur coat was counted among the lords of the earth, and if he owned a fast horse he was a very prince of fellows. The ordinary man could make his way then as well as now, but undoubtedly wealth was inclined to monopolize the centre of the stage...
...Register is a book that no Harvard man can afford to be without, it is a volume that can be placed in the hands of sub-Freshmen with the assertion, "Here is Harvard." Every organization from the yacht club to the Regimental Band finds a place...
...acquiesce in a disturbance of power far greater than any of them can hope to accomplish to their own profit,--Japan's seizure of the Chinese finances and army. She is now in a position to demand of the eventual winner even heavier terms. And Germany can hardly afford to bargain with...
...must also have a regular squadron of assistants trainers and other subordinates, all of them drawing good salaries. No wonder it costs more to put one football gladiator on the gridiron than the average student spends in a whole year at college. Yet some of the institutions which can afford to be so prodigal in coaching and coddling their athletic teams are the ones which cry out continually that they have not enough income to do their academic work properly...
...that man may or may not do; they are teaching basic football along standard lines, plodding slowly, deliberately, working with infinite capacity for detail. It's a slow-grinding mill sometimes. The results may be dilatory and alarming; the preliminary games may often cause nightmare; even late October may afford food for foreboding; but in the end the system will have its way and a squad of men clad in crimson jerseys--among other garb--will appear upon the sore November turf, with at least one asset: they will be football players...