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...Thoughts of Youth" is a moral exhortation. Each essay abounds in solid morality, and the whole sets up a code of morals and a standard of conduct excellent for the practice of the young and the study of their parents...
...very fact that the book is a moral exhortation sets up limits to its effectiveness. A code of moral conduct in the form of essays is one of the most difficult things imaginable to "put across" into the minds of boys of the preparatory school age. "Most of my readers", Dr. Drury says, "belong to a privileged class--the class of summer resters". It may be ventured that no class could be more difficult to reach...
...made up of hundreds of tiny dots, varying in size and shade, the dark dots being large and the light ones small. Photographs under the new system are translated at the sending end into groups of letters, each letter representing a certain degree of darkness or lightness. To de-code the message at the receiving end a special instrument is necessary. This is a form of typewriter which, instead of reprinting the letters, reproduces the dota that they represent...
...goal after a touchdown in a football game should be enough to send one team home heart-broken, "all in", disgraced,--at least in their own minds,--while the members of the other team mount pedestals to become objects for little short of idolatry. Yet just such a code of sport ethics is set up for us by the impassable gulf we create between winner and loser. With such a point-of-view appreciation of the game for its own sake is lost in accepting the finality of the score...
...American lawyers, is to make all applicants present a series of certificates as to their moral character. The first should be from the dean or corresponding officer of the college which they have attended. In the second place there should be in every law school, a course on the code of legal ethics and no candidate should be admitted to the bar without a certificate as to his moral worth from the teacher of this course. Finally, in every state, there should be a committee on character, chosen by the highest court, who should examine all applicants orally on ethics...