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...University, asks friends of college football to combat the forces staging professional games. He fears that American Rugby will become contaminated by the spirit of professional play and does not conceal a belief that the touts and gamblers of other sports will be diverted to football for a seasonal livelihood. He cites instances of amateurs being induced to enter professional games under an assumed name...
...Crittenden perhaps overstates the inefficacy of a liberal education as an aid in the struggle for a livelihood. It is doubtless true that it will not, like the technical education, assure anyone of an immediate and fairly lucrative place in the production machine of the nation. Engineers, draughts men, and accountants and their ilk are in constant demand. But the very fact that they have been trained in one sole field usually keeps them engineers, drafts men and accountants. For the positions at the top, it is the knowledge of human nature and human relations and the hospitality...
Secret agents are reputed to have discovered that when Golostchokov (the man who had charge of the heads) told his secretary about the decapitations, the latter clapped his hands with joy and shouted: "Now, at least, our livelihood is assured! If necessary to get out, we can go to America and exhibit the heads of the Romanoffs in the music halls...
...Oxford and Cambridge have never taken the opinion that they must turn out men equipped to win an immediate livelihood. Education should introduce a man into a particular kind of life; it may or may not bring him a livelihood...
...thing to give credit where credit is due; it is quite another to imperil one's livelihood by excessive feelings of gratitude. Dempsey and Kearns, in their blind enthusiasm, have given to Tom Gibbons the key to his one vital shortcoming. He lacked that ounce of ferocity, that ecstasy of endurance that Nuxated Iron, according to the implication of Dempsey's statement, alone can give...