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...more than that the CRIMSON believes that any lengthening of the football season would be bad from the point of view of the players and of the College, which suffers enough, as it is, from the football mania. A touch of the mania, such as we have now, is splendid counter-irritant, but it could easily become a dangerous disease in itself. We hope that this agitation will end, like most of its kind, in nothing...
...effort. Those who could do the best job keep quiet; conditions of the past have changed and the authorities of a dozen years age are no longer unquestioned. Football this year demonstrated more clearly than even that it is a game of team-play. All America teams are a splendid occupation for a rainy afternoon, and would even be a good foundation for a Ladies Home Journal literary competition, but as a matter of serious consideration they are antiquated...
...placing our faith, we hope, as the sportsman always does, that the better team will win. And when all is said and done, the better team probably will win, for failures and flukes are as much a measure of a team as splendid gains and wonderful charges. If a team fails in a crucial test, it is not the better team at that time, whatever it may have been before or may be after. But, to be frank, the philosophy of hoping that the better team will win is curiously involved with a good deal of believing that...
...witness the foundation of self-governing communities for children in Connecticut, Pennsylvania and other states. As Judge Brown will give us the western and newer phase of this movement, his lecture will be of especial interest to those who know of the George Republic. To others it offers a splendid opportunity of becoming acquainted with this important aspect of social reform...
...fence of indecision over their future occupations. What these men have said comes as a surprise to the many of us who have not known exactly what the Business School was doing. We have heard rumors now and then that it was giving its men a splendid training and, last year, we heard a somewhat vague story of the training of secretaries for Chambers of Commerce. But until this morning we had no definite idea of this further extension of Harvard's work to practical problems. The distribution of a Harvard System of Accounts for Shoe Retailers was a long...