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...once is practical political training. The college man has no political party and no political mind; Republican and Democratic Clubs have few members and fewer present at meetings. If we become interested in politics it is not as a profession but as a diversion, and by accident. The answer "Politics" to the question of a purpose in life brings the retort. "Yes, but what are you going...
There is no answer to that...
...question is being discussed and the answer sought for every day in the papers by presidents, prelates, and the principals of high schools. Between them they have succeeded in excluding from college everybody theoretically except the professional hobo. He has none of those objectionable qualities of ancestors, wealth, social standing, or ambition. Moreover, he hails from rolling stock and has a decided preference for aristocracy, whether it be the aristocracy of brains or the aristocracy of the rough and ready. This last named qualification insures a dogged determination in, as well as an easy adaptability to, the academic life...
...lead men, without compulsion, into wiser ways. Certainly exercise of every sort has been made convenient and easy for any member of the University. The regular organized sports offer a natural solution; but for the man whose time or inclination forbids them, there is a sufficiency of other answer. Tennis has become by all odds the most popular pastime for good weather; in winter its indoor counterpart, squash, holds equal popularity. Both of these are well provided for at the University; about fifty tennis courts are already in play, and a score or so more planned. Squash courts...
When three men start through the same door at once, and the door is built to allow passageway for two, what happens? The answer to this question would solve the mystery of the mobs at Memorial yesterday...