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...Harvard whose moving impulse in entering into a sport is not far more the idea of sound bodily training, regular exercise and pleasant recreation far more than any exclusive and feverish desire to win games. This every such man we believe individually feels. College teams often seem to direct their energies in another way. But so long as the benefit of the individual is secured it does not much matter (comparatively) as to the rest. It is true many men do not engage in athletic sports. This however is not to be mended by reducing such sports to a more...
...help towards the attainment of the ideal? After a few suggestions about the training of personal character for the benefit of society, the lecturer went on to discuss the social tendencies that help and that hinder the realization of this organic ideal. Conservatism, the lecturer thought, is often a direct help to progress, because conservatism insists that progress shall be rationally comprehensible, and so organized. Conservatism represents the tendency to think new experiences in old forms, and so to continue definite habits of thought, thus avoiding confusion of thought. Conservatism therefore, where it is not mere laziness, aids society...
...three "learned professions," they are now to be found, and every year in greater numbers, in occupations not at that time recognized as professions at all. In journalism there will be no dispute that this is true, but it is equally true of callings in which the direct advantage of a collegiate education is less obvious, as, for example, in architecture. We believe it will be found that the increase in the number of undergraduates is at least keeping pace with the growth of the country in population and in wealth...
...apply to them: "Whose membership of any rowing or other athletic club was bot brought about, or does not continue, because of any mutual agreement or understanding, expressed or implied, whereby his becoming or continuing a member of such club would be of any pecuniary benefit to him whatever, direct or indirect." When we see a man devoting nearly his whole time to the oar and indulging in expensive habits, we know that he cannot keep within the letter of the amateur law, unless he has a fixed income; and if we happen to know that he has no property...
...perhaps desirable, as the faculty appear to wish, to lessen the element of competition. But can the faculty do this and at the same time accomplish what is generally accepted as their aim, viz.: promote athletic interests, or perhaps, rather, to save them? Is there not a direct opposition in the two ideas, lower the competitive element, and support the interests of athletics? It has always seemed to me that competition is the very coundation upon which all athletics rest. Any thrust which diminishes competition will diminish in exact ratio the amount of interest taken in our sports...