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Your article on my Murder address, (Editorial entitled "The Deadly Statistic". Tuesday, April 1), before the Forum, is a pitiful reflection of the low standard of true education which is being disseminated by Harvard and other universities who look flippantly at life and its duties, and consider the function of education to be merely of adding to the gayety of nations. What purpose you can serve by such silly observations passes the understanding of one who is, happily free from the pernicious influences of a vapid university atmosphere Fortunately, no one taxes Harvard seriously these days...
...failed to get the support of some High School Athletic Associations while in Atlantic City" said Mr. Geer, "largely because some of the leaders failed to appreciate the function of athletics in the school. These men were willing to subordinate the health of pupils to the winning of post-season championshops after the winning of a rational kind of championship in connection with a tournament of games for an athletically related group of schools. I'm in this fight to the end and have planned a campaign which will bring this project before a great many of the educational institutions...
...comes down to this" he concluded, "it is the function of High School athletic authorities to safeguard the health of students to their care. We can't do this by dispatching teams all over the country for intersectional contests, nor can we do it by sanctioning post-season games. If we can't have idealism and its attending benefits in High SchSool athletics, I'd like to know where we can have...
...then discovered that the serum which naturally prevents cancer is produced in a small gland in the neck, and that this gland becomes decreasingly active until, at 50, it often ceases to function. Therefore, stimulate this gland. But the gland cannot be sufficiently stimulated...
Wrote Dr. Harry Pratt Judson, President Emeritus of the University of Chicago: "The existing bureau may have added powers without detriment, its function of gathering and distributing educational information may be made more effective-but I earnestly hope that no bill will pass which distributes more Federal funds for State functions. What the country needs is less taxes rather than more expenses...