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...Shell Shock" Investigated...
...most interesting problems was the condition which is now known as 'shell shock.' In no previous was have troops been subject to such violent and continuous bombardment with high explosives, and it is therefore but natural that the extent to which the human nervous system can stand such a strain has never heretofore been so thoroughly tested. It also follows that the susceptibility of troops to such conditions varies considerably with their nationality and still more with individual peculiarities of temperament...
...Hoffman, Van Horn and Carr form a good squad of players from which an excellent back-field should be made up. Mueller will undoubtedly remain in his old position of fullback. With the loss of Barrett, comes a large gap to be filled in the form of a quarterback. Shock, last year's substitute for this position, will be lost by graduation, so that Speed and Hill who were used some in that position are the only second-string men left from last year's squad. Bretz, last year's 1919 quarterback, is a likely candidate for this position...
...announcement that three men of especial prominence in the intercollegiate athletics of the University have been suspended for low scholarship will undoubtedly come as a distinct shock to the undergraduate mind, with its comfortable smugness in regard to probation. Nothing but this attitude is responsible for the fact that men can go on probation, and still sail calmly on with no change in their lives until the trap upon which they walk is sprung and their footing completely drops from beneath them. When a man is put on probation his friends slightly deplore the fact, but seldom do they exert...
...news of the resignation of five Yale men from participation in intercollegiate athletics has come as a genuine shock to all Harvard undergraduates. It is well-known that few athletes have ever really read the rules relating to professionalism, and do not know the various technical ramifications upon which players may be disqualified. The facts of the case admit no doubt that the men who resigned were completely innocent of any real professionalism in spirit, and only ignorance of a technicality led them to the disqualifying act. It is no exaggeration to say that all Harvard men feel the deepest...