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...there are many men who neglect cultural opportunities, not because of any real aversion, but because of apathy. They are intellectual sticks-in-the-mud. They prefer bridge to the Symphony; they limit their talk to common-places on shop, sport and sex--all because it's the line of least resistance. They are cerebrally obese...
...track team starts today. All members of the class of 1917 who wish to compete should report at the H. A. A. Office at 1.45 o'clock, when the work of the competition will be fully outlined. This is the last opportunity for Sophomores to compete for a major sport managership. No previous experience is necessary...
...undergraduate is a little inclined to be a hasty sportsman rather than a sport-loving sportsman,--to win first and consider the means afterwards. It is not any warp in his moral nature which makes him so, but rather a somewhat thoughtless impetuosity bred of what is known as "college spirit." A few call Dean Briggs an idealist, and mean it as a criticism, never considering that a little idealism is what college athletics need above all else. Dean Briggs is an idealist, and as such his attitude toward sport in general acts as a corrective of undergraduate impetuosity...
...rivalry of Oxford and Cambridge in sport therefore is a thing apart, a matter between themselves, something to be settled by 'young 'varsity gentlemen' without the pother and popular clamor which are the inevitable concomitants of intercollegiate contests in the United States...
...rivalry of Oxford and Cambridge in sport therefore is a thing apart, a matter between themselves, something to be settled by 'young 'varsity gentlemen' without the pother and popular clamor which are the inevitable concomitants of intercollegiate contests in the United States...