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...proper punishment is not the expulsion of the individuals, for the Polo Club will be drunk again next year, and much the same thing may happen. The evil cannot be remedied by a reform of the club, because, being a purely Freshman organization, there is no steadying influence to keep it straight. The only thing that can be done which is worth doing at all is the complete extinction of this sole surviving Freshman club. What is the best method for doing so is not here to be discussed...
...unfortunate restriction which the custom of our theatres imposes upon the art of the dramatist--that he must scale all his pictures of life to the measure of about two hours and a half. Clearly things do not happen with just that degree of complexity which makes possible the stating and solving of a problem within any one limit of time. So we are ready to welcome such a departure as enables us to see this week at the Bijou Dream Theatre a piece written to be played in half an hour...
...periods. Such a change would give much less occasion for players to become exhausted or "groggy." The two extra five-minute intermissions would give exhausted or injured players a chance to recuperate, and might often be the means of avoiding serious accidents. Serious accidents are much more likely to happen to men in a played-out condition, when they are unable to protect themselves...
...trainers the risk of death or serious injury is not great. It is in the games between these powerful teams and weaker ones, or in games in which the players are physically unfit or the proper medical attention is not given that serious accidents are most likely to happen. In drafting its rules the Committee has to consider not only the big institutions where football is played under the most favorable conditions and where every safeguard in the way of training and the use of substitutes is employed, but also the hundreds of smaller colleges and secondary schools where substitutes...
...part.' In expressing the thanks of the Delegates for the most cordial welcome you have given us, may I not adopt these words in behalf of the Delegates from all parts of the world? 'We shall stick together when we part.' In whatever parts of the planet we may happen to meet, the first greeting for any two of us will be 'We were at Harvard together at the inauguration of President Lowell...