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...idealistic conception of a self-governing democracy to the south of us, has received one blow after another. Successful presidencies such as the Calles administration, have been consistently followed by periods of disorder, during which most of the patiently taught fundamentals of popular government have been totally forgotten in the usual scramble for personal self-elevation. Such constructive and enlightened presidencies as that of Calles, however, have been maintained primarily by force, and they would seem to justify their indefinite continuation as benevolent despotisms. Mexico has not proved herself ready for true democracy, and a reversion to what is ordinarily...
...second time in as many years, water transportation will play a considerable part in bringing spectators to the Harvard-Yale game. The water taxi service of one marine company has already received reservations for its boats, and it will offer a complete service. The speedboats plan to receive their passengers on Fort Point channel, dash up into the Charles River Basin, and land the rooters right on the Stadium grounds...
...Purdue the opinion expressed through the editorial column of the "Exponent", the University daily, is that such an action represents a complete misunderstanding of the raison d'etre which motivates collegiate athletics. One graduate writes, "Is the greatest university in the world becoming so dependent upon the great god money that it will deprive approximately one half of its athletically inclined students of enjoying the thrills of such (minor) competitions?" In spite of what is perhaps an understandable bias regarding the importance of his Alma Mater, this graduate's views on the importance of minor sports indicate a healthy respect...
These opinions of the graduates and underclassmen obviously coincide with the idealistic motive for athletics. Sports, like any other diversion, are for the good of the majority and not to provide games in the spirit of the Roman spectacles. The perfectly organized athletic system would not be one stressing the aim of quality at the expense of quantity. The aristocracy of ability which football creates should be counterbalanced by the democracy of the minor sports, and it is this aim that the movement at Purdue is defeating...
Turning to Princeton, one reads the same day that not nearly so many graduates now enter the ministry as formerly used to be the case. But will that reconcile the undergraduates to having had a gloomy football year? Many Princeton alumni who afterward pounded the cushions of a pulpit learned how to do it partly on the gridiron. What Princeton needs is not more clergymen among her alumni, but more mighty men of valor on her football team...