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...Weisbord's recent threat to call a strike of school children unless the officers abandon Cossack methods is an example of the mental position which have led to stern riots and sterner repressions. For the moment one wonder at this unreasonable boycott which would harm the laborer more than the capitalist. The heat of strife has blinded the leader, who is himself a product of higher education, in the permanent avenue of escape for his followers offered by intelligent preparation for solving problems...
...grind through signal practice by artificial light. In fact, all this practicing is mighty hard work; ever so much more work than brain work. There is a malicious popular belief that football players are not naturally inclined toward brain work. This is unfair: football players have merely chosen the sterner course. Many more fail at this course than at brain-courses. Only a few men each year, out of dozens of candidates, win their letter. It is much more difficult to earn an H than an A. B. All honor, then, to those who aim at one letter rather than...
...graduate is one who is proud of his alma mater. An alumnus is one who is ashamed of her when she begins to lose football games. An alumnus writes more checks than a graduate, and is in every way the sterner...
Herrmann is the Crimson hurler who will match his skill with that of Captain Trumbower this afternoon. He has started only one game this year, having won that handily from Catholic University last week, allowing the visitors only five hits. He is sure to meet competition of a much sterner sort this afternoon, and he will have a dangerous opponent in the Brown leader who throws and bats left-handed. Trumbower has turned in a better record this year than any of Coach Snell's hurlers, although he is naturally a fielder, conscripted to the pitching string this year...
...University. Small persons of three, four and five years, instead of keeping their doting parents at home by their screechings and other forms of infantile hilarity, can now be left to exercise their lungs as they see fit in a day nursery, while fathers and mothers attend to the sterner matters of life in the lecture room...