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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...probably because he has lost the proper perspective between studies and athletics. Experience has shown that the average star athlete in school, is an indifferent or, at best, average school student. When he enters college he become a below-the-average or probation student and consequently is not of much use to his team...
...previous results of attempts to control women do not promise much success to this project. The traditional last word of Xantippe and the saline perversity of the wife of Lot show that restrictions are not particularly adaptable to them. The objection of the associate editor of the college newspaper that co-eds "waylay and harass the male students", and, "destroy the studious and scholarly atmosphere of the college," are just as vain as the same argument that resulted in Socrates taking up his abode in the public square. At Detroit fifty girls are opposed to two thousand men, but Cleopatra...
This penetrating indictment is one that might cause much pain and heart-searching to the conscientious college man. It might drive him to despair. It might induce him to abandon his hypocrisy and leave college. Fortunately, it will do none of these things, for the simple reason that the college man is, or should be, busy enough and sane enough to have no time for such speculations. If he reflects upon his own attitude toward his work, he passes it off with the thought that his attitude at the end of college is going to be more important...
...cannot but evoke immediate comparison with the recent work of Egon Caesar, Count Corti dealing with the same subject. There is evident, indeed, in these two works the difference between two methods of biographical or semi-biographical exposition. Mr. Ravage is essentially the popularizer leaving out of the picture much that goes to make a complete panorama of the times and relations in which his central characters find themselves; Count Corti is essentially the historian, realizing the important part which character and heredity play in the lives of his subjects, but seeing also the great significance which many...
...third volume of Rupert Hughes' "George Washington", the first two of which aroused much comment, will be published in the fall...