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...where it needs to be defended. But its full value today and the important part in the business of the world which it has assumed already,--not in a far-distant, visionary future,--are very little realized. Amundsen has not yet flown to the North Pole, and aviators are forbidden by the law to shoot ducks in New Jersey. These are spectacular news items; but in a matter-of-fact, inconspicuous way "Langley's Folly" is justifying its existence a hundred times over...
There is a tradition which grows up around all "sanctums" and "holies of holies," that makes them doubly attractive on account of their very sanctity. At certain colleges, no doubt, half the lure of secret societies lies in their forbidden buildings; just as in an earlier age the vulgar stood in curious wonder outside the inner shrine which only the initiate could enter...
...wondering overworked author of "The Same as Us" in the CRIMSON for January the 26th, 1923, seems to have "Tasted of forbidden fruit", when he said "a small boy, seeing an inviting green apple dangling before him on somebody else's tree, considers that it is there to be eaten". This morning I dare say that the budding young green critic of genius must be suffering with a "green apple" laugh of satisfaction, when he goes forth into the praising air realizing that "he has made the most of his opportunities and done his duty by the community...
...content that for four years he has forbidden us to share in the Peace of our Allies, with more than British hypocrisy withdrawing from them the hem of his Puritan garment; he now dares to rebuke us because we do not stand forward to defend from them our foes--a-wallow in the sly of their iniquities...
...also suggested that the unlimited substitution and resubstitution of players be allowed. This while a more revolutionary measure--it is forbidden in most professional leagues--is felt to be for the best interests of college hockey in that it will allow more men to take part in the games and will therefore facilitate the business of training the hockey player. With a sport which, unlike football or baseball which have long been established, has not such a long past from which coaches and players may profit, this is a desirable measure in that it will make it easier to train...