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The same mail that brought that issue of TIME also brought a letter from this same Robert Collier of Mind, Inc. It was such a good letter that I am sure that all genuine TIME fans would enjoy it:
The problem is chiefly, confined to baseball and football. In the case of baseball there is, so far as I am aware, no legitimate ground on which can be defended, in the interest of the game itself, the practice of permitting the coaches to direct the play. In the case...
The two great obstacles to be overcome, however, are not incident to the game itself at all. The first has to do with the difficulty of securing a general agreement among the institutions which compete with one another. No one college is likely to be willing to withdraw the supervision...
"I am an old-fashioned Harvard individualist, and an opponent of the 'undifferentiated efficiency' of the modern college and university. I believe that these institutions should be reserved for men who plan to enter the advanced professions, such as toaching. Harvard, among others, is taking a great many men for...
"I welcome what has happened, inasmuch as it brought to light the tremendous amount of lobbying done in this country. The Bureau of Commerce at Washington should be able to make available to congressmen and senators in an impartial manner facts about the pending laws. I am opposed to lobbying...