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Like most of our schools we have no athletic field but simply use the largest open space between our buildings for football and the walks around it for track. But inadequate equipment could not dampen the boys' enthusiasm to enter a winning team in the First Provincial Interscholastic Track and Field Meet in the province of Fukien. This First Provincial Meet made athletic history for us in this province. For the large majority of the thousands of spectators it was the first real demonstration of what athletics could do for Chinese youth and what a convincing and enthusiastic demonstration...
...turn toward a more favorable view of European participation recently, and the charges which the Democratic congressmen had stored up for use during the recess would have been effective ammunition against the party in power. The President's prudent compromise, which accepts the Court without the League, will considerably dampen those stories...
...cannot add a cubit to our moral stature by yearning to be like those joyful sons of other institutions of learning who herald their democracy and mutual esteem by holing like wolves. Let us be content that the shades of the Puritan will always flit silently among us to dampen slightly our fervency and moderate our joy of living. Those sober men of the old time were not devoid of passion and numbered among them many of the "good and the great", of whom we are still able--on occasion--lustily to sing. But with all our pride of tradition...
...cannot add a cubit to our moral stature by yearning to be like those joyful sons of other institutions of learning who herald their democracy and mutual esteem by holing like wolves. Let us be content that the shades of the Puritan will always flit silently among us to dampen slightly our fervency and moderate our joy of living. Those sober men of the old time were not devoid of passion and numbered among them many of the "good and the great", of whom we are still able--on occasion--lustily to sing. But with all our pride of tradition...
...Harvardiana" and "Our Director" to Princeton and Yale with the same spirit that they showed Saturday, the football players will have to play a fast and furious game to keep in time. Enthusiasm was the only dry thing at the Penn. State game, and no amount of rain could dampen it. This is the spirit that raises our hopes and gives the team a standard that it will work to meet...