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...maintain with absolute conviction that no loyal Princeton man would tolerate the sacrifice of sportmanship to athletic victories, further I contend that Princeton could not allow her devotion to scholarship to be subordinated to externals of habit, dress, and thought. I know Harvard men well enough to say that they are gentlemen and are opposed to discourtesy whether in the form of conceit or mistaken loyalty. In other words I believe that the present friction is the result of misunderstanding, misrepresentation and prejudice...
...time has come for an examination to determine just what that title implies--with a view either to strengthening the thing itself or doing away with it immediately, entirely, once for all. Admittedly it is a triumvirate; a triumvirate, thoroughly worth preserving, provided each of the three members can maintain a healthy and sportsmanlike attitude. But if as a few Harvard men would have us believe, one of the parties to the agreement is disgruntled or for any reason desires to get out, then it is high time for a dissolution of the 'Big Three'. At all events...
...naval replacements. . . . Remember that Germany's defeat was due to an economic blockade! . . . We ask only 122,400,000 more yen ($60,000,000), this year, to replace auxiliary craft now ready to be scrapped. . . . Surely Japan is not so poor that she cannot pay this sum to maintain her present fighting strength! . . . The dawn of our modern naval history has been glorious. The high noon of Japanese sea power must be worthy of our naval heroes who walk with Count Togo through the twilight of life...
...convicts of Auburn Prison marched solemnly past his bier. In 1913 he became "Tom Brown," entered Auburn Prison as a convict, A week later he came out with a philosophy of prison reform. His plan was to restore the prisoner's self-respect and help him maintain it. The key to self-respect, he believed, is labor...
...upon her that the whole burden of the play must fall. The unfolding of the story which is in reality an unfolding of her mind, a mind wedded to the sea, is a rapid matter, swift, sure and inevitable up to the very close. A Duse alone could maintain the tempo, with no waste gestures, no amateur hysterics which might interrupt the play's relentlessness. Two weeks of rehearsal of such a part sound farewal. Yet that is all the preparation. It is to be supposed, that Huth Taylor must have...