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...every signature on a blank means that the signer accepts the favor as such. Just how any gentleman can distort that privilege of application into a license to fleece his friends by compelling them to do without seats or pay extortionate prices for them, it is difficult to understand. Some methods of making money are forbidden by law and called dishonesty. Others are forbidden by common decency and are called dishonorable. Those who have utilized the football game for business purposes may class their transactions in the second category, but on the whole to a man of self respect there...
...among whom were many upper classmen attended the reception in Sanders Theatre last night. Professor Shaler as chairman of the committee introduced the speakers. In his introductory remarks he said that the object of the committee was to help the students to become reconciled to their environment and to understand their opportunities...
...standing before the race or final game, or to substitute another in his place at the outset. In view of his lazy attitude as compared with that of the others on the team, it would seem at least just to drop him for good and to let him understand that he has shirked his duty just as much as the man who has broken training...
...country must more generally undertake or the country will drift into dangers which may lead to wreck. Among the things you will discover is the tremendous force of disinterested service; and the irresistible power of aroused public opinion for the accomplishment of every fort of good work. You will understand what Washington meant when he looked to that opinion, properly enlightened, to carry this nation forward to its highest destiny...
...with her large field for selection, larger than any other college has, should not get together a winning team more often than has been the case of late, and it is hard for many of the graduates who were winners on the old Mott Haven Team for years to understand why their clean line of victories is not at least approximated in recent years...