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...real objection to this plan. Will it not decrease membership? It seems to us that students join the Union for one of two reasons: either because they think it their duty, or because they think that they can use it profitably. No man becomes a member merely for the sake of the lectures, especially when it is so easy to borrow a ticket. The suggested plan would bring a considerable sum of money into the Union treasury; it would enable the deserving student to listen to lectures which he could not otherwise hear; and it would extract something from...
...minor sports exist primarily for the pleasure and exercise of those who take part in them. Sport for the sake of victory alone has much in common with prize-fighting. It is valuable in all forms of sport to have system and definiteness; organized teams and outside contests are excellent means to obtain them, but they should be secondary. The tail has wagged the dog for a long time at Harvard...
...woman there is more chance of happiness in vice than in unmarried virtue. Incidentally one happens to know that this is false and that the author knows it also. In a review later on in the Monthly, Mr. Westcott says that we sometimes hear that "art for art's sake is decadent--whatever that means." It ought not to mean anything. As a matter of fact it does mean that the disciple of the doctrine thinks himself freed from the truth that morality has any relation to art. A pure-souled idealist like Shelley could depart from traditional codes...
...value a man according to the results he obtains in his department, without regard to the methods by which those results are secured. The principle that is to be observed in every business relation, great or small, is this: "keep your honor bright, and do not do for the sake of your employer or your own sake what you know in your heart is unworthy of an honorable...
From another point of view, this movement may be considered to disprove largely the charge so often made against American athletics, namely, that they are not undertaken for the sake of sport itself, but only from a desire for victory and fame...