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...spite of the many printed attacks on commercialism in football, on the "expense of victory", which we read every year as the season ends, attacks which are often aimed primarily at intersectional contests, the fact remains that such games can be of immense good. Publicity of the right sort does no harm. In the case of colleges more publicity is gained through football than through any other single means. As international sport events have proved their worth in furthering friendship between countries, so intersectional games should foster a finer and more sympathetic understanding among the colleges of the country. Harvard...
...beginning of any athletic season, those interested in the particular sport forecast the program with their "dope"; during the season the dope continues, and after the season these same men start doping the next season. I have heard many men say that they did not believe in this sort of thing, but in the end we all come to it, and without "dope" or forecast, there could be no comprehensive planning for the season ahead...
...emphasis placed on football can be justified at Harvard in two ways. Its financial success makes possible all the other forms of athletics, activities that are not self-supporting, so that men who desire physical development of any sort whatever are able to secure it with the best coaches and equipment. And athletics themselves as a mode of exercise need no defense. Secondly, the big football games, with their publicity, the enthusiasm they arouse, and the universal interest in them, are the greatest unifying influence in the University. Harvard, more than any other college, is known for the individualism...
After a hectic tour of America, the mighty Marshal of France is safely aboard his steamer homeward bound. He returns like a Roman Emperor back from the wars, laden with trophies of every conceivable sort. His triumph beggars description. But unlike most men their duty is done, he need not fear for his future. If he wishes to set up as a lawyer, he has more than a score of LL. D. degrees, conferred by the highest universities of the land-surely no one will question his competence to serve at the bar. Or if manual labor has a stronger...
...high spot" in the first half of this season's schedule. But a game with California will be ample compensation. For though our own team has traveled to the Pacific, there to display its prowess, few undergraduates were present at the contest, and all will more than welcome a sort of return game in the form of an invasion from the West...