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There are thus two extremes, the man who goes into politics for a livelihood and loses independence for the sake of influence, and the man, who loses influence for the sake of independence. There is, however, a large middle ground between these positions. No man should make politics his profession unless he is rich enough to be able to withdraw at the times when his judgment does not indorse the actions of his party. For otherwise, there is almost sure to come to a professional politician a crisis when he must choose between his principles, and bread for his children...
...impugn his amateur standing was accepted. The part of our rule under which the decision was rendered reads as follows: "No student shall be allowed to represent Harvard University in any public contest who shall have taught or engaged in any athletic exercise or sport as a means of livelihood." Additional evidence has only recently been sent to Harvard in the shape of a receipted bill showing conclusively that Mr. Cutts had been paid in 1899 for giving boxing lessons to a boy in the preparatory school where he taught. He was therefore clearly ineligible by the Harvard rule...
...either before or since entering the University, shall have engaged in any athletic competition, whether for a stake, or a money prize, or a share of the entrance fees or admission money; or who shall have taught or engaged in any athletic exercise or sport as a means of livelihood; or who shall at any time have received for taking part in any athletic sport or contest any pecuniary gain or emolument whatever, direct or indirect, with the single exception that he may have received from the College organization, or from any permanent amateur association of which...
...independent he is not free. The man who is in want or in danger of want is not a free man, and the country which does not guard him against this danger is not a free country. How to secure every man in the means of livelihood is then the great problem to be solved...
...book several hundred dollars, which decreased the earning of the man who really did the work. It was a trick of the most selfish nature-one which it is hard to imagine would be perpetrated by any Harvard man who had known how hard men struggle to gain a livelihood here while they are getting their college education...