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...change. Far too many lose two years finding their way to classes and some go through college without finding it at all. Perhaps Yale's method is the right one or, as is new planned here, a rejuvenated English A. in any case there is a wide opportunity for reform in this direction...
...Homer Wace. Lamarck boards the Hollow Ships Darwin the Human Race. Swinburnes Bacons Sophocles, but Mills with Henry VII; the Roses York with Glorianna, manna falls from Heaven, Rousseauing down Endymion the Frogs are all Gladstoning Grote Joshua's Farewell Address. The Last Duchess, intoning, Lloyd John's Reform is Billing Swift, while Benton Ruskins Contract. Layamon, Macduff, the Brut! Godzooks! 'Tis well-known for a fact Hannibal Island's Robinhood is easy on the Style. Cowper all Lovelacely full went Reading to Carlyle, Chaucer Canterburies Nietzche with the milk of human wiehes; Saint-Saens, Rachmaninoff, Ronsard, all Crabbe...
Agitation for reform in college sports contains both wheat and chaff--and a considerable amount of each. Too much publicity is one charge. Football could do with less space; the other sports are better adjusted to the amount of interest in them. Football, and, to a lesser degree, other sports have been overreaching themselves along the line of intersectional contests. Here is an immediate source of needless expense and overexploitation. In the matter of dual contests, at an rate, there is plenty of competition, all that is needed for interest and health, in each college's own section without going...
...much may be done by each individual-- mainly for the purpose of avoiding the waste of the dropped student. In that, too, it seems unnecessary; for with the warning of probation, no man can say that dismissal came upon him unawares. It is doubtful if more rules would reform the student who wittingly drops out, and it is more doubtful if responsibility should be taken from the rest for the few who still lack foresight and judgment...
Wherever mortals and human institutions are found, do not expect perfection. The chronic fault-finder seldom considers this. Hence he is loud in his bellowing for reform...