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...importance the student mind places in athletics and an over estimation of the difficulty of the Exeter entrance requirements which are supposed to provide the necessary check on athletes. If such be the case, it may be expected that the new course will prove its faults in actual operation and that the Exeter authorities will come to a realization that some relation between studies and athletics must be maintained if an undue emphasis is not to be placed on the latter...
...avoid. His chances of getting one of the really good section men are not great, and it would be well if the whisper still flew about the preparatory school quadrangles that seventy-five percent in English Cp. 4 outclasses ninety-five in any other subject as far as actual value received is concerned...
...Student Employment Office, which recently took over the management of the concessions on Soldiers Field, faced the Army game with but little actual knowledge of how much food and drink a big game crowd could consume. The senior partners on the other hand had had considerable experience along these general lines in handling the major contests of last year, and for some reason thought they knew what ought to be procured. In a huddle with the Employment Office potentates most of the difficult problems were patched up, but on the question of sandwiches the opposite camps struck an impasse. Both...
...thing and business management quite another and it is unreasonable to suppose that the two activities may be happily combined. The obvious method of securing an equitable distribution of jobs between athletes and non-athletes is to have this phase of the situation handled by the Employment Office. The actual direction of the men given positions, however, might well be taken over by some individual or organization familiar with the operation of such enterprises and more or less in touch with the policies of the H. A. A. in the conduct of affairs on Soldiers Field...
...Washington suggested that Congress authorized the establishment of an Engineer's School at West Point. For various reasons, the actual establishment did not take place until 1802. That is the birthday of the Military Academy...