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...only say to the Editors of TIME that it is self evident to any person of refinement or culture that any young man should behave himself, and that if a young man highly placed misbehaves himself some public protest should accompany the public notoriety which his indiscretions have received due to his prominence. That is why I protested, and I know that many of your readers approved my protest deep in their hearts...
...defense, in resting its cast, entered strong protest against "the employment of police-spies to ferret into the affairs of the accused"; and charged that political factors had motivated the actions of the prosecution. Said Mr. Justice Swift, in his charge to the jury: "I would have you recall that if 9, crime is committed in secret, secret methods may have to be adopted in order to find it out. . . . Whether the defendants are being prosecuted by a rival political party or not is of no significance. ... If guilty, they are guilty, whether the prosecuting party be Conservative, Labor, Liberal...
...fiery President Leguía of Peru (see below) commented as follows on Señor Edwards' protest...
...Protest against "overemphasis", upon football, ancient and often as unreasonable as the malady itself, has taken a new turn which may well prove decisive. For now it is the undergraduate who leads our way--the Harvard Crimson and the Yale News concurring. What should be a sport has become an arduous grind, endured by most of the players only because college loyalty demands the sacrifice as no less a luminary of the gridiron than George Owen declared of late in the Independent. What should be a strictly collegiate function has become a gigantic public spectacle, raising the young gentlemen engaged...
...lose no word of protest ever came from the players themselves. If defeat crowned their efforts in place of victory, it was their fault and the fault of Harvard. They knew better than the outside world the man for whom they were staking Harvard's football reputation. Such confidence is the greatest tribute that a coach can receive. It is of the stuff which raises lost hopes and sends a team against Yale which will not be beaten...