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...Cornell Sun of the statement by Professor Paton of Princeton that any change for the better must come from the students themselves. He said, "the students have more sense on the football question than the alumni." We hope that this statement ultimately will prove the fact, for agitation to lessen the importance of football certainly never will come from the alumni. This is natural, however, since the alumni find in football their best opportunity to recall golden days gone...
...matter of publicity shall be subject to constant supervision and study in an effort to lessen undue emphasis upon athletics in general and football in particular...
...such estimable social position as was the late senator the sustained innuendos and invectives that appear in this posthumous work. Instead of correcting the world's opinion of Woodrow Wilson's character, as he thought he was doing, Mr. Lodge has left a monument that will serve to lessen the world's appreciation of himself...
...will it affect politics ? It will probably lessen the political pressure to institute a grain-exporting corporation with governmental capital to dispose of our wheat surplus abroad. This year there will be no wheat surplus...
...fact is that over all these sources of shortsightedness we have some control, over many of them very great control. We can lessen our ignorance by earnest search for truth. We can widen our sympathies, and reduce our prejudice by striving to do so, and that without letting our resolution be sicklied o'er by the pale cast of thought. We can control our passions by frankly acknowledging their existence to ourselves...