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...Clarence B. Van Wyck, Secretary to the Department of Physical Education, yesterday, "is that there are now laws in nearly every state requiring instructors in this work in both public and private schools. The largest salaries in the teaching profession, except full college professorships, are being paid for this sort of work...
...alumni, undergraduates and friends of Harvard are urged to refrain completely from offering any inducement to any schoolboy to enter Harvard, when the compelling motive in so doing is that boy's athletic skill or promise. The Athletic Committee feels that artificial hospitality of any sort, such as trips to the university, automobile rides, the are parties, etc., constitutes an "inducement," under the meaning of this resolution, little less mischievous than offers of money, jobs, and other valuable considerations, which have been already specifically condemned. The Athletic Committee believes that persons attempting to induce schoolboys to enter Harvard for athletic...
...medical school, which last three and four years and require a college degree before hand. Compare it with the training of an artist or a singer. There you have something of a measure of the comparative value of the expressive pursuits--what we call the professions--and of the sort of work to which the victory of the machine has condemned a large majority of mankind. Our industrial system provides a life of fools to fit the fool-proof machine...
...variety of fare offered by the current Advocate demands a selective appetite on the part of the reviewer. Periodicals partake of the nature of boarding houses; the hungry reader can generally envisage the sort of vegetable prose and marshmallow verse that will be set before him. The chefs of the Advocate, unusually expert, have provided this month relishes full of spice and a piece de resistance of original flavor...
That there are immense benefits to the youth of the country and to the country itself involved in the sort of training proposed, is generally conceded. These benefits are, to the individual, improved health, a larger and more national view of his relations, and wider acquaintance with his country. To the Nation, they are the creation and deepening of the sense of community interest and the breaking down of racial, religious, linguistic, and sectional differences...