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...recognize a play I would not use it before them until perfected and then I would spring it suddenly! As to the value of football in training for life's work the question is just what kind of a man you would like to make out of your boy. Ninety percent, of men who go into business, it is said, fail at some time or other. Do you wish him to be one of the kind that knowing the percentage sits down and folds his hands or do you wish him to be accustomed to facing hard knocks and disappointments...
...will you use that outside life? What will your boy make of it? There are shrines of all kinds in college before which he may bow. Best, I think, is the one that's built to him of the straight clean back and limb, who bends to no social set, whose vision is unlimmed b y specious show but who 'plays the game' and that's the shrine that shall last...
...buried to the neck with syrup on his face and a swarm of red ants turned loose on him?--Shudder not, gentle reader, he is rescued in time to save his manly beauty, and the story ends with the fair Inez leaning over his hospital cot murmuring "Sh, dear boy...
...Nichols said it was hard to deal directly with summer baseball on account of the indirect way in which a player often received his recompense. He mentioned instances of a boy jumping over a bat for a bet of $50 with the manager of a baseball team, or of tending a soda fountain at a summer hotel for half an hour a day at $50 a week. He could see no objections to a bona fide resident playing with a summer nine provided he received no compensation either direct or indirect...
Today even a Christmas number will probably have at least one story dealing with a sex problem, and the expected happens in Mr. Osborne's "Dark the Dawn," an interesting study, in sufficiently plain words, of the effect of life in Germany on a lonely American boy whose "morals, like his religion, had been a family hand-me-down given him by his father." The detestable smugness of the Pastor's household is realistically described, and the only wonder is that Kendall did not find his way to the white--or should we say the red--lights sooner. The story...