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This volume is thicker--and we realize it with a pang--than the preceding one. It concerns the men who died within the year after the United States entered the war. Again there is no strict holding to prescribed limits, which is admirable. Every story is living and filled with sympathy in treatment and selection. Whether, as in the case of that of Every Jansen Wendell the biography is mainly in the words of a classmate, or as in that of Harmon Bushnell Craig told in his own writings, or as with Wainwright Merrill worded by Mr. Howe himself...
...English do not take their athletics as seriously as we do in America. Of course everyone at Cambridge wants to beat Oxford, but in their eyes no victory is worth the while if they cannot have fun in attaining it. And the Englishman usually refuses to be bothered by strict training rules. A player on the rugby team is quite unlikely to lay aside his Dunhill and give up his mug of ale till a week or so before the Oxford game, if at all. If rugby developed into a game where the strictest of training was necessary, where...
...then there is the question of the student bodies. The means of insuring good sportsmanship and strict amateur standing in college athletics is not through compulsion of any sort, but through the education of college public opinion. When every college man realizes that the game itself, and not its result, is the really important thing in sport, there will be no fear of professionalism or anything like it. The prevalent idea that it is a positive disgrace to lose a game is what is largely responsible for most of the present difficulty, and when it gives way to the feeling...
...perfectly true that the distinction between a professional and an amateur athlete is often invisible to the naked eye. We have heard it said that one should be wary of carrying golf clubs for money; that sin makes one a professional golfer. The amateur rules may sound ridiculously strict, but they are not unfair, for the fact is that if there is to be any erring at all it must be on the side of strictness. Sport for sport's sake really does mean something! And this is particularly true of college athletics...
Senate opposition to treaties involving new international obligations for this country seems to be as deep-seated as it is unreasonable. In spite of all that has gone on in the last five years, there are still politicians of great reputation, who do not realize that the days of strict Monroe Doctrine isolation are gone forever. At present the Four-Power treaty seems to be bearing the brunt of the opposition. The "irreconcilables", unfortunately heavily represented on the Committee on Foreign Affairs, are already talking reservations, thereby laying the foundation for a long-winded argument against ratification both...