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...mark to which many have pointed is that emphasis should be shifted from the ideal of victory to the ideal of sport for its own sake, with participation by the greatest possible number, Dr. Raycroft's third point appears to be directly in line with this mark. If a man is permitted to play in intercollegiate competition for only one year, the number of men required for "varsity" teams will be increased and with greater incentive, there will be a proportionate rise in the number of candidates for teams...
...better aware of the virtues of the free elective system than Dr. Eliot, who instituted it at Harvard. The ideal of such a system, as he used it to illustrate his talk yesterday, is to make it possible for each student to find a subject which interests him, and which he can follow out with enthusiasm. No work, without that element of personal interest, can yield enjoyment, and without some return of satisfaction to the worker, any labor becomes stale and doubly tiring...
...ideal of the college as a place for training by the trial-and-error method, rather than a direct preparation for specific tasks, is frequently lost sight of. Surely one of its duties is to open before the student panoramic glimpses of the different fields of knowledge, and help him to find the one in which his work will give him the greatest satisfaction. This the elective system makes possible; but in itself it is not sufficient. Many men come to college pre-determined; others slip into the first groove that they find convenient, and forget that there...
...when one day shows a program in which major parts are rivalled by non-athletic competitions, the ideal of diversified interests, each with its proper emphasis, seems decidedly nearer...
...March 4 Uncle Joe will be gone and Henry Cabot Lodge alone will remain to carry on the banner of the ideal. To the American people, however, the senior Senator from Massachusetts must perforce seem a little too genteel, too cold, too Back Bay to serve as an adequate trustee for the Old Guard tradition. They will long for the homely democracy of Mr. Cannon, so often expressed by those homely democratic symbols-Uncle Joe's black cigar and thumping quid...