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...feature, rushing and passing, being used to gain ground, we have forward passing. Games may be won only by forward passing, or fumbling. The game requires masses of opposing players to meet at a point running at full speed in opposite directions and is therefore dangerous to life and limb. The game has become commercialized and so dominated by paid coaches that they oppose any changes which might interfere with their vested interests...
...quite a jump from D. T. McCord's "The Ups and Downs of Skiing," to Mr. R. Emerson's "Religion--Past, Present, and Future." After a brief, dizzy excursion into space we wake up in bed to find only one limb out of a possible four functioning properly. Then Mr. Emerson comes along and prescribes a rather ambitious, eloquent, inaccurate order of Religion. We refuse to swallow...
...Football is so inherently rough and can be made so brutal, a menace not only to limb but to life, that when it is played out of the control of self-respecting universities, colleges and schools it requires supervision by the authorities no less rigid than is exercised over the prize ring. Football may be a game or it may be a fight. In any event it is peculiarly a college sport and has many features that cannot be transplanted to mercenary soil. One of them is the amateur flavor of intercollegiate football--one of its very greatest assets; professionalism...
...eleven good men and true, wearing the crimson jersey and pushing the muddy ball down the long field against the tide of defeat. Memory holds men more strongly than present discomfort. There are many loyal sons of Harvard, who, though disaster compass them about, will forget their weariness of limb and spirit when they hear the news from how that the team played a great game. Theirs will be the clear remembrance of pleasanter hours, which may not be eradicated...
This is not the time to review the methods of education in foreign countries. To be successful, any system must be consistent with itself, and it is unsafe to graft a foreign limb into a root unadapted to sustain it. So far as culture is concerned, our problem is to develop, in harmony with our own institutions, a type of education that will cause young people to enjoy the things the world has agreed are beautiful, to be interested in the knowledge mankind has found valuable, and to comprehend the principles the race has accepted as true. This is culture...