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...business life, and partly from a desire to learn a little something,--but not one in ten of us comes from the pure love of knowledge and the desire to so train himself as to extend that knowledge and beautify a world too conscious of its more unpleasant aspects. Develop such a spirit, and America would no longer suffer from a dearth of artistic genius; and could take her place with the older nations at the table of the arts as well as in the factory and scientific laboratory...
Crew opened its 1922 season yesterday under its new director, Dr. Howe. In addressing the candidates be emphasized two purposes of rowing. One, of course, is to have a successful season, the other, to develop the individual and give all men who desire it a chance for exercise. This second purpose always has been one of the great virtues of crew. Every one has a chance: there is room for every one. No sport offers so general an opportunity for exercise and bodily development. Under this new system the individual is to receive even more attention, than in the past...
...majority of the readers of this newspaper are probably not old enough to have seen many great revolutionizing inventions develop from what seemed to be a joke to a great popular necessity. The writer has seen several. He saw the electric are and incandescent light grow from a very doubtful laboratory experiment to a public necessity. He saw the electric street car grow from an impossible nuisance to the universal method of street transportation. He saw the bicycle develop from a great high wheel which required an acrobat to ride, into a popular device which nearly everybody knows...
...prevailing tendency of all American preparatory schools to 'cut boys to pattern'. Now it can readily be seen what effect an atmosphere of this sort has on the young theatrical aspirant. He does not intend to be put to pattern. He wants an opportunity to train and develop his talent. So he immediately becomes labelled as a non-conformist, an experimenter, and finds no one to sympathize with his natural tastes. The second obstacle in the way of recognition by preparatory schools of the right of the creative artist is the all absorbing necessity of getting the boy into college...
...course it would take a long time to develop a system of intramural athletics that could replace the physical culture plan. But in the meanwhile, it would be well if the different classes started intramural sports going. More inter-class sports should be instituted and an effort to arouse more enthusiasm and cooperation should be made. Daily Maroon, University of Chicago