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...What is Wrong...
Last week, while the universities beat torn toms to stir up their alumni, mildly, preciously intellectual Vanity Fair and the brusque, factitious American Mercury, told what lacks and is wrong in U. S. higher education...
...have several good former college men (I myself am a graduate of the University of Cincinnati, and of Cincihnati Law School) but they are scarce. For this there are, in my mind, several important reasons. In the first place, college men come into the baseball game with an entirely wrong attitude. In college they have played for the honor of their school and for the self fame it might bring them. In major league baseball we play for business; to make money. Those men who play in college play for recrestion, and not as a duty. They do not have...
...land. It is a recognized fact that there are a great many laws which are violated every day. Some people are too good to obey the laws, or too thirsty. As a result of this constant violation it is hard to tell what is right and what is wrong." He went on to show that neither laws nor religions could determine right and wrong and proved his statements with forceful examples. "It can not be conscience that determines this difference," he went on, "for that is merely a state of mind and varies with the institutions of a community...
...explanation came, last week, except the guess that enemies of Composer Strauss must have devised this cruel means to hound an old man out of Vienna, to perhaps drive him mad. Herr Strauss has many enemies; for he has played many a practical joke, sometimes leading an orchestra deliberately wrong and then reviling the know-nothing audience when it applauds...