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...crew men were called out, the Yale News says, "Praising a crew before a race is one of the surest methods of ruining its chances. This mistake was made last year, and the memory of the eight lengths of open water will preclude a repetition of the error." The Elis realize the mistake of overconfidence which was so disastrous last year and are determined that it shall not be made again. On the other hand it is only fair to admit that there is not as much reason for overconfidence this year. Captain S. Y. Hord...
...easy it would be to kill any game by placing penalties on mere errors of execution. Suppose a netted ball in tennis should lose the game, the fine free dashing close-to-the-net play would be killed. If an error in baseball should give the batters an additional, inning, the hard chances (which are the joy of players and spectators) would be avoided. No game should have rules that arbitrarily penalize good play out of existence, and football has just that feature...
...crowning achievement was the fact that it actually worked for five continuous weeks. Those who asserted that the League was dead will have to admit a resurrection; those who saw in Argentina's haughty withdrawal the beginning of the end will have to confess their error. For five weeks delegates from forty-one states sat at Geneva and accomplished more than any other Congress in that time; they proved that cooperation was possible. No one can doubt any longer the reality of a working League of Nations...
...corporations, have supplied the real sensation of the building trades investigation. Against such a system of blackmail as that which they put in force, the "hated capitalist" was bound to react. He reacted too far in seeking to prescribe union labor by the means of combination. But his error and offence in that respect should not throw the Lockwood investigation--or the Congressional--inquiry which is to follow--off the scent of the real and capital offence, which is the corruption and tyranny that have permeated every branch of the building business and wrought their perfect work in practically bringing...
Some men are deterred from entering the ministry for fear that they cannot speak their minds out. That is a profound error. All that one needs is the saving grace of common sense, and he can say what he pleases. Some feel that the Church makes too much of theology. On the contrary it probably makes too little of it. A plain and positive teaching on the essentials of the Christian faith is what men are loking for and need. Others feel that the ministry does not offer them a fair and solid living. It is true that its returns...