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...chief problem", declares the report in discussing the disproportionate emphasis on athletics and football in particular, "is one of relative values; and it must be met, in our opinion, by following the principle that athletics is an element in the education of the individual to be given its due place but no more than that; the object being the all-round development -- intellectual, physical, and moral--of the student." Only one criticism of this is possible--the idea of athletics as a means rather than an end has become so fixed in all intelligent discussion of the problem at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATHLETIC TRUISMS | 5/17/1923 | See Source »

...present time a revival of student enthusiasm for such matters. This is a tendency that can periodicals can do to further it will be effort well spent. As the report suggests, the international question, with the League of Nations as a focus, is certain to be a prominent problem in the coming years. College men, with college newspapers as a medium, should take a vigorous part in the discussion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW | 5/14/1923 | See Source »

...enthusiasm for such matters. This is a tendency that can hardly be overdone, and all that the periodicals can do to further it will be effort well spent. As the report suggests, the international question, with the League of Nations as a focus, is certain to be a prominent problem in the coming years. College men, with college newspapers as a medium, should take a vigorous part in the discussion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW | 5/12/1923 | See Source »

...sure as God lives and the sun rises in the morning there will be a soldier bonus law passed by the next Congress. Instead of talking about reducing taxes, the real problem is how to raise the funds for the bonus!" -Senator Smoot of Utah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Tinkering | 5/12/1923 | See Source »

...decision of the Supreme Court that the nationality of a ship " partakes more of the characteristics of personal than of territorial sovereignty" altered the problem of enforcing the Volstead Act. As the decision pointed out, foreign ships, like foreign persons, when in United States territory (which extends to the three mile limit) are subject to the National Prohibition Law. Likewise United States vessels, like United States citizens, are not bound by our law when outside of United States territory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Discretion | 5/12/1923 | See Source »