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...fall of 1914 the total receipts for football were $85,000 and the expenditures were $32,000. This left a net profit from football of $53,000 as compared to a profit of $38,000 in 1913. The increased seating capacity of Palmer Memorial Stadium helped materially to swell the fund...
...country at all comparable to the of the Union. And the lecturers who speak from time to time offer a treat, intellectual and inspirational. If more men would appreciate these advantages early in their college life, the University, the Union, and the classes, as well as the individual, would profit greatly...
...There is a class of men who could without loss and indeed with profit give up two months of three successive years to this training. These men are students in high schools, preparatory schools and colleges. Most of them are idle during an annual three months vacation. If six scattered months made a soldier these students could be made into a Continental force...
...potential enemy, we have fallen into the European habit of thought. If we are right in that Europe has been right, Germany has been right. Indeed, there is not a European country that has not had a better reason for preparedness than the United States. If we are to profit by the fate of certain unprepared countries," however, we can do it only by imitating France and Germany...
...logical necessity is no that of quixotically righting the wrongs of other nations, but of defending our national existence and honor. America as a people must live; although perhaps with Voltaire, the pacifists do not see the necessity. And we should be dull indeed if we did not profit by the experience of certain unprepared nations of Europe...