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...alles will have to be settled. The movement has been started to make athletics the sanely adjusted power for good that they can be. "Sport for sport's sake" will sometime prevail over the attitude that success in sport is the measure of the worth of an institution. Athletics exist for purposes of the colleges: the colleges do not exist for purposes of sport. The Dartmouth
...should require only a few strong leaders to start the much-needed movement toward reform. Even Senator Walsh tacitly admits that conditions could be bettered, while at the same time he advises against the one thing that could bring about that betterment. So long as this attitude continues to exist just so long will city politics be the black sleep of the American environmental system...
Many of us who are interested in educational problems complain of the American system in general as being fundamentally wrong, and we hear vague sighs for the English method. Examinations are prescribed work, the bane of our college existence, are said to be a mere cold blooded ticketing of students; there is no freedom. Through school and college we are dogged into receiving an education which has been aptly described as a fair amount of knowledge in one field and a shrewd suspicion that other fields exist. We are prone to look to England for the solution...
This letter was dated 1372; the university ceased to exist early in the sixteenth century. From this information, aided by Talma's fable, Senor Alvarotez has deduced the following theory. The bell-ringer, no doubt, was a descendant of the one who received the letter. Even after the university had ceased to function, father and son had continued to ring the bell in the early hours of the morning; until this bellman, the last of his family, had died at his post. Cordially yours, J. BLATE-DUNCAN...
...round physical development. Such a proceeding would be entirely destructive; it might indeed rob athletics of much of their present importance but it would not result in any transference of interest from the field of sport to the class room. The obstacles to a general intellectual awakening would still exist...