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...longer make rules to prohibit the undergraduate from doing what he most desires but we look to him to form high and noble traditions. If you are here to seek pleasure you are in the wrong place. Pleasure is a by-product and has never been found by merely pursuing it. You are here for a far more serious purpose; to qualify yourself and others for a life work. Get into contact with men and find something in common with them. Avoid mediocrity in all things like poison and strive always to break records, not records of others but your...
...question of what is right and what is wrong in such cases may not always be perfectly obvious; and it may not always be perfectly easy to do one's duty; but difficulties far more serious arise in the manager's relations with other people. Take such matters as injurious trades, unhealthy tenements, unfair competition with rivals, oppressive treatment of employees, dishonest products, disregard of the public safety or comfort, dealing with public authorities which, even if not corrupt, are unconscionable. It is in questions of this kind that the evils of absentee-ownership are felt today. The investor does...
...ployers, he is led in the same direction by a sense of loyalty to the corporation that he serves. He feels a sense of duty to do the best he can for it, to fight its battles, to push its interests, and a great deal of the wrong that is done is concealed from the actors by their devotion to the welfare of the concern. Even in charitable and educational institutions one feels this strongly. They struggle against one another to the detriment of the cause in which they profess to be engaged, until the army of the Lord sometimes...
...their studies by members of the Freshman football team. Since then certain objections have been made to this editorial on the ground that it put the Freshman class in a false light. Wishing to treat these men with all fairness, we shall make it plain how far we were wrong, and how far we were right...
...with the football situation here. We announced that over one half of the team was on probation. This was, as we discovered afterwards, an exaggeration for only three out of the eleven were in this standing. At the same time although we are glad to see that we were wrong as to figures, we cannot retract our words of condemnation of those Freshmen who will be needed next fall. For instance three men escaped probation only by getting two C's apiece; among seven men we find only six straight C's. This deplorable condition, it seems to us, warrants...