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...plan are fully explained in the report. "Hitherto", it says, "the College has been asked each year to contribute several times to individual drives or money. The duplication of effort in collection, and the annoyance and inconvenience caused to the individual student, have redounded almost without exception to the detriment of the drives concerned. One drive, advertised as absolutely the only drive, would be more likely to meet with a generous response on the part of the student body...
...Hitherto the College has been asked each year to contribute several times to individual drives for money. The duplication of effort in collection and the annoyance and inconvenience caused to the individual student have redounded almost without exception to the detriment of the drives concerned. One drive advertised as absolutely the only drive, would be more likely to meet with a generous response on the part of the student body...
Sinclair Lewis has refused the Pulitzer prize awarded him for his novel "Arrowsmith"; and to the detriment of no one, neither. Sinclair Lewis nor the Pulitzers. Mr. Lewis can continue to write untrammelled, and the prize will without doubt fall to some more oallous artist. In accepting a prize, there is undoubtedly a certain acquiescence in the manner of the contest. If Mr. Lewis disapproves of prize contests on principle, if he sees a pledge to fly no higher than the will of his donor will permit, then, whether over-sensitive or no, he will not be grudged...
...popular commodity to sections of the public hitherto debarred from it. But the indirect influence upon conditions in our colleges and universities is an important consideration. College football has been an academic scandal for the last two decades, absorbing the time and interest of the student body to the detriment of intellectual pursuits, developing an unhealthy spirit of competition and vulgar advertising, and leading in almost every institution to disguised professionalism with its attendant evils of venality, hypocrisy, and lying. If the new league propers and maintains its program of not permitting college students upon its teams, certain changes would...
...Lafayette and Olympic flyer and also an ex-titlist, will answer the gun in the dash. This is one of the most formidable fields to be assembled since last spring. It should give Miller a chance to show his speed, and it is hoped that Burns will overcome the detriment of his football injury...