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...maintain this system of graduate coaching wherever possible, but experience in every sport, not solely in football, has shown that of necessity there comes a time when an able graduate coach is not available for the sport in question. When such a situation arises, it is pointless to cling to the tradition in the face of reality. Thus, in every sport save football Harvard has looked outside the lists of its Alumni Directory for leaders. There is no reason why it should not follow the same course in the case of football if the Committee decides to change the present...
Scrappy Thomas J. ("Tommy") Gibbons, whom Jack Dempsey trounced in a heavyweight championship bout at Shelby, Mont, in 1923, managed to cling to the public payroll. Onetime City Clerk Gibbons of St. Paul ran as an independent for Ramsey County, Minn, sheriff...
With the fire between him and the door, the student had to cling to the window-ledge, and this he did until rescued some time later by the action of the inhabitants of the floors below...
...sides. But by that time we have forgotten, too. However, it is an excellent example of his logic. Reading on: "Not even Franklin Roosevelt or Herbert Hoover or Upton Sinclair or Commander Hayes of the American Legion can hope to supply a cure for our troubles and still cling to the methods of a hundred and fifty years ago!" And I might add Jesse James. But this is utterly meaningless, a mere hodge-podge of names and inconsistencies, mere guesswork. And nothing is said by way of clearing up this hopeless jumble. Or perhaps he was being witty? Further comment...
...take control; but that would be fascism or something like it and not very close to the days of 1789. Not even Franklin Roosevelt or Herbert Hooever or Upton Sinclair or Commander Hayes of the American Legion can hope to supply a cure for our troubles and still cling to the methods of a hundred and fifty years ago. The most alarming thing is that in spite of the efforts of the last two years we are really no nearer the solution of our problems than before. Perhaps we should try a new method of attack...