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...experience contributes to knowledge, but experience is not knowledge unless properly classified and put under control. At college the classics used to be the instruments of mental disciplining. Since they have been abandoned, to all intent and purpose, with the advent of the elective system, students are apt to make the mistake of thinking that all the secrets of the world are to be stored in their minds in four brief years (a task that ages of men have not accomplished), and with this wild hope they neglect to search themselves, see wherein they are weak where a course...
Because of his alleged radical views and disparagement of the United States Government, Professor Newell L. Sims, head of the Department of Sociology and Political Science at the University of Florida since 1915, has been forced to resign by President A. A. Murphy and the Board of Control of the university...
Each year our government finds itself faced with the problem of extending state control to new fields. Those conditions of individual freedom from restraint, which once seemed so easily possible, have given way before the tremendous increase in our population, and the growth of specialized vocations and modern industry...
...Football is so inherently rough and can be made so brutal, a menace not only to limb but to life, that when it is played out of the control of self-respecting universities, colleges and schools it requires supervision by the authorities no less rigid than is exercised over the prize ring. Football may be a game or it may be a fight. In any event it is peculiarly a college sport and has many features that cannot be transplanted to mercenary soil. One of them is the amateur flavor of intercollegiate football--one of its very greatest assets; professionalism...
...principal objections to the Plumb Plan is the inefficiency in management which would result. Government ownership has everywhere proved less successful than private management, our present experience with the railroads being a case in point. Moreover, the interests of the public would not control the policy and direction of the railroads under the Plumb Plan, but rather the interests of the railroad men themselves...