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...letters fell into the hands of a Manhattan newspaper that enjoys no sport as much as baiting Republicans. An exposé followed. Mr. McLaughlin telegraphed asking whether "any person had been so ignorant" as to use his envelopes without stamping them. Thereupon the contrite General Manager began a check on the number of letters sent out, promised to send a check to the Post Office Department for the postage, despatched a telegram to the National Republican Committee to prevent the Congressman's "getting in wrong," made a public statement: "I'm solely responsible. I made a big mistake...
...Crowd. The sport of Kings, like other royal prerogatives, has reverted to the people. More than 45,000 saw the race for an aggregate admission of $482,000. The social curve extended from masses of Social Register representatives to the masses themselves. Many English groups were noticed regaling themselves with lunch hampers and tea as they had learned to do at Epsom Downs...
Dartmouth and Harvard broke even yesterday in their minor sport encounters, the Green soccer team losing 2-1 while the Hanover harriers ran away from their Harvard and Maine rivals...
...always tempting to take the ideal point of view and argue that after all football is a sport and not a business, that it would be better if the undergraduates who were most concerned directed all athletic work, that in football in particular the emphasis has been disproportionate and the individual made a mere cog in a machine. But such arguments, however tempting, are idle unless they accord with facts. And the trend during the past two decades at least has been in the opposite direction. There are signs that even crew, which, in the past, has relied more than...
...prove more beneficial to the youth of the land than to their elders. A four hour day would make unnecessary for the workman the drudgery of night school in order to gain and education. It would give greater opportunity for cultured development; it would leave more time for healthful sport, to mention only a few of its more obvious benefits. Let Mr. Edision bring on his short-time working day and stop worrying about its effect. The doleful Malthus will perhaps snare the country in the toils of his population low in a few generations. But meanwhile people would like...