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...demands, and so high and imaginative in its rewards, is obviously not one to which large numbers of men, in any particular day, are likely to be drawn. There are quite enough men now in the Christian ministry in this generation, such as they are; what we want is not many men but the few and fit. And there are certain clear preliminary qualifications for the office. Practical men, for instance, who are chiefly interested in doing things, who take an objective view of life, who think of it in terms of action, will not usually make great ministers. They...
...needs an ingredient in his life of something beside books in order to make his books themselves seem real to him; he needs a dash of physical effort and even risk. And there is nothing, at present, except the more strenuous phases of athletics that can supply this want. If the college man's play looks to an outsider like the most earnest and whole-hearted thing that he ever does, it is because this play is at present his best substitute for "experience," and for that kind of "reality" which pain and hard training rub in. I take...
...know there is great dramatic possibility here; but I don't see any evidence that you in this country want a good theatre. If you did, you could have it; the material is here, much of it to come from Harvard. To me it is a very encouraging sign that so many of you are at heart interested in the drama, and that the opportunity is given to so many of you to study it under Professor Baker. But as things stand at the present time, with the financial side of the theatre so prominent...
...Your article on 'Low-Brown' in a recent Bulletin has my attention, and I want to write and say that I agree entirely with the CRIMSON. Since College days I have seen much of the undergraduates both in a financial and social way, and I feel that their conversation is painfully deficient. The range of subjects usually is from athletics to girls, and if one of them should happen to talk on American or English politics the others would be amazed. It seems to me a vast improvement should be make...
Actually, a good deal of the protest that is made, is to be credited to Providence people who want to see the Harvard stars in action, and who do not realize that the term "substitute" does not mean here what it does elsewhere. Certainly one who has followed the game here could not propose seriously that the Harvard line-up was "scrub" or "second string" in any sense other than that more than eleven first class men cannot play at once...