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Until definite reduction is made, every man who is receiving money because of athletic ability alone should be declared ineligible; and in the meantime it would do no harm if newspapers, some alumni, and others who thrive on rumor would stop yapping...
...difficulties in the way of this plan are largely to be overcome in building the theatre and putting it on a solid foundation. The argument has been used that no theatre can thrive without the pressure of active competition; that the theatre-going public would soon lose interest in a publicly subsidized drama, with the idea in mind, in all probability or a glorified sort of hand concert on the Boston Common...
...mile paddle and this afternoon for six miles, with fast work for only about one mile of the workout. Coach Haines devoted his attention to touching up the fine points and the men responded very well. The Junior crew got lighter work than the first today, and seem to thrive on the new program. H. R. Atkinson '21 is out of the crew with an injury, but S. A. Duncan '22 is filling his place at bow in good shape, and the form of the eight is not materially affected. L. B. LaFarge '22 has taken Duncan's place...
...Monday night, after their offerings on the accordion, saxophone, clarinet, trombone, and other wind instruments. They played with a versatility and ease which astonished the audience and brought many rounds of applause. Franklyn and Charles were well received also, their Apache dance being particularly effective. Charles seemed to thrive on the rough treatment he received, and the pair did some amazing feats of strength and balancing...
...psychology is loss to be commended. They do not, that is, admit into their thinking the one fact which is most germane to the subject--namely, that scholarship is in its very nature a pursuit which is not fostered to any appreciable extent by overt "recognition", that it can thrive lustily even though accompanied by something less than a fanfare of trumphets. Scholarship--not to put too fine a point upon it--is like virtue, its own reward. This may sound like arrant sentimentality: it is the soberest truth. The real stimulus to the life of study...