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...would the financial side of our athletics be cared for by a man who would be willing to put his whole time into the work, but the members of the Athletic Committee would be relieved of the clerical and office work now thrust upon them. All matters of well-known detail, such as the approval of schedules, etc., would be settled by the permanent treasurer, who would pass up to the Committee only the larger questions as to our athletic policy with regard to other colleges, the general way in which our own athletics are to be managed...
...Washington has been principal of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institution since 1881, and is the leader in the movement for the industrial education of the negro of the South today. He is a well known writer and speaker on racial and educational subjects, two of his best known books being "Up from Slavery" and "The Story of My Life and Work...
...sketch of Jeremiah Curtin, linguist and ethnologist, best known to the public as the translator of "Quo Vadis"; a brief article by Rev. E. E. Hale '39, consisting mainly of personal reminiscenses of Longfellow as a professor at Harvard; a discussion of the future of music at Harvard by E. B. Hill '94, and a review of two notable books by Harvard men. Professor Bliss Perry's "Walt Whitman" and the volume of Dean Shaler's posthumous poems entitled. "From Old Fields"--complete the list of special articles. As usual, about half the number is devoted to the various departments...
...task, because he had to oppose a professional system of marked success. Yet Mr. Wray's success here and his superiority over his amateur predecessors is unquestioned. Track has always seemed to be a sport where the professional trainer is necessary. Thus we have on the one hand the known superiority of the professional coach over the amateur, and on the other the possibility of an unhealthful influence ethically...
Alexis Aladyin, the last speaker, best known as the leader of the peasant party in the last Russian Duma, has a very great influence over the entire industrial and farmers' party, and is one of the strongest revolutionary forces in Russia. Though born a peasant, he is well educated, speaking English, French, and Italian fluently. He has often visited London, and has given talks in Whitechapel, the heart of the laboring quarter. In 1905 he returned to St. Petersburg, and was asked by the peasants to run for deputy in the Duma. On receiving information that he was being watched...