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Both the bride and groom were members of the cast of the Harvard Theatre Workshop's "Troilus and Cressida." Miss Laughton was scheduled to play Helen of Troy and her new husband was to be a Myrmidon in the production. Both of them had been in rehearsal for more than a month...
...real evil of professionalism is not that certain laborers receive their hire: it is that they take the place of the true amateur. Where the imported athlete flourishes, local talent withers. Each myrmidon deprives dozens of good men of the incentive to training. When the true amateur spirit prevails, a college centers its pride not merely in the prowess of its teams, but also in the gross number of its students who learn to love sport for the sake of sport and of the health in body and in mind which it engenders. No institution is secure in virtue until...
...matter of fact it was the thirty-first - Mr. Brantingham, of Christ Church, having occasion to write a letter, was unfortunate enough to use a sheet of paper on which was stamped a representation of a Cardinal's hat, which is the crest of Christ Church. Some myrmidon of the Inland 'Revenue discovered this circumstance, and a few weeks ago Mr. Brantingham received a windy rigmarole of a legal summons to attend at the Vice-Chancellor's Court, and show cause why he should not forfeit the sum of pound 20 in that he did 'in the year...
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