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Economy can and ought to be practised, however, in connection with the extravagance that often attends such necessities as training tables and transportation of teams. Of this Dean Briggs observes in his 1911 report: "Taxicabs as the sole means of getting about, costly dinners with wines and cigars,--all to be paid for out of gate money,--these things belong to that theory of training which furnishes free automobile rides and theatre trips as a relief to the overtaxed nervous systems of the University squads...
...third statement is as follows: "The phrases most frequently uttered by Harvard Hughes supporters have to do with every subject on earth except the sole visible and apparently eternal issue of a Republican high tariff, sufficiently recognized by the rest of the country." I beg to state that the tariff is not the paramount issue of this campaign and indeed the tariff policies of both parties are every day becoming more and more alike, owing chiefly to conditions anticipated after the war. Even the Democrats have come to recognize the need for a certain amount of protection under present conditions...
That Hughes advocates in the University are urging "every subject on earth" but the question of a high protective tariff might well go back to 1896, and the good old days of high tariff and low. If Mr. Lazarus seriously believes that the "sole visible and apparently eternal" question of a high tariff is the only one with which the community is concerned in the present campaign, then it were far better for him to take up his political primer, his newspaper or his train of common sense, and learn what confronts the country. Let us hope that there...
...Hughes here are pronouncedly militaristic and pro-Ally, whereas it is the pro-German throughout the country who are preparing to "strafe" Wilson for his independent Americanism; and (3) the phrases most frequently uttered by Harvard Hughes boomers have to do with every subject on earth except the sole (visible and the apparently eternal issue) of a Republican high tariff, sufficiently recognized by the rest of the country. If those three facts are granted, as I think they must be, we are forced to the conclusion that Harvard University, being judged by its majority, is exposing itself to the ridicule...
...Intercollegiates today. New England is represented by Amherst, Bowdoin, Brown, Colby, Dartmouth, Harvard, Maine, M. I. T., had Yale. The Middle Atlantic States have as entrants Columbia, Cornell, Georgetown, Haverford, Johns Hopkins, Lafayette, New York University, Pennsylvania, Penn. State, Princeton, Rutgers, Swarthmore, and Syracuse. Michigan is the sole entrant from the middle west, while California and Stanford come from the Pacific Coast...