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...bought a copy of your magazine today in St. Louis and what you say about Indians (TIME, Sept. 27, p. 6) strikes me as foolish. You even quote Burke* as saying "Indians are assets." Of course Indians are assets-to him! Where would his job be without Indians? You might just as well have quoted a wop peanut roaster saying "Peanuts are assets...
...have taken this job ... to help preserve high-class football as it is played in colleges . . . a clean, red-blooded sport . . . great character-builder...
When, at 291, he graduated from college, the Carnegie Steel Plant at Pittsburgh offered him a job. Officials of the plant felt that he would be a useful addition to the company football team, one of the paid sand-lot elevens that were then flourishing. Mr. Edwards, sensing that he had not been called on for his knowledge of the steel business, refused. He coached for two years at Princeton and Annapolis, and used a whistle at many famous football games; a friend suggested a political career and Mr. Edwards, acceding, secured a job in the New York City Department...
...Well, Joe," he replied, "It's like this. Here I am, new at the job and everything. Of course I want to do well, and all that, but don't you think it would make it look a bit too easy, a bit too cut and dried, if you told them how much we were going to win by? And think of the effect on the other team. For the whole country knows about...
...incumbent must know full well the duties of the President. Of course he can discover them in the Inaugural Address of President Eliot. Mr. Baldwin does not need to go there for any instruction. He knows his subject too well. Nothing better proves a man's knowledge of a job than his ability to prove the inability of others. Summerfield Baldwin '17 has that ability...