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...going to tackle this question? You say what we want in the first place is good government. That is not what we want. England has good government, but she has class government. Parliament is corrupt just like Congress. We are now passing through the same stages of government that England has passed through. Our democracy is being transformed into an aristocracy. What we want is representative government, government that represents the common interests of the people. That won't be good government for a good many generations. We want more than goodness in representatives. We want loyalty. The problem...
...School of Grand Tactics, which at Yale has been presided over for twenty years by Walter Camp. I shall try to show later just what this accomplishes to justify my crediting it with an influence of forty per cent. on the result. I have called it the 'system,' for want of a better word, but it is really the tactical policy of the game...
...kick-off the ball want over the goal-line and Harvard rushed it from the 25-yard line. An exchange of punts and long gains by Wendell carried the ball to the 12-yard line. Graustein then took Morrison's place. Lewis had dropped back to try a drop-kick just as the half came...
...There has been some mistake about the subject of my talk this evening. What I said I was going to speak on was the atomic theory, the House of Lords, the solar system, and the destiny of man, and I took this as I did not want to travel outside my province...
...Garcelon and Mr. Kuttner express, each in his own way, a great athletic truth. "We want our teams to be well cared for," says Mr. Garcelon, "but ought not to carry that care to the point of absurdity. It is possible to judge of the mental and physical condition of the members of a team by the complaints which they make." "As to there being any truth," says Mr. Kuttner, "in the statement that expensive equipment makes a team win, I would say that any team that thinks so couldn't win under any circumstances...