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...says: "With regard to the evils of the present system of college athletics it must be remembered that the best system will not be free from all evil. That the present system has evils is no valid argument against it, unless it can be shown either that these outweigh the good, or that some other practical system can be devised which shall have all the good with less of the evil of the present system." 1. The amount of time devoted to sport is, he claims, not excessive, never more than two hours daily, including going and coming, and this...
...speaks of football and the objections which have been raised against it, but he maintains that the advantages far outweigh the evils and dangers...
...arranged in a different order, without in anywise changing their qualitative character as separate pleasures or pains, would at once alter their value. A single moment in a hour's or day's experiences if it has an organic connection with our previous life, has a value that may outweigh the dullness of all the rest of the hour or day. So we estimate our own lives not at all as aggregates, but as organisms. Even so with other men's lives. We must value human life as a whole, not through addition of happy and miserable men, but with...
Among the pleasantest features of college life in the spring are the open-air concerts by the Glee Club. The amount of pleasure they confer upon the student must far outweigh any little trouble to which the club is put, and yet thus far the club has sung only twice. These concerts have for a long time almost formed a part of college life, and it does not seem as if the club could be justified in so slighting them. It is generally supposed to be a college institution; if it is, more attention ought to be paid...
...proportion. Granting other things equal, the chances of great success, these maintain, are greater for the graduates, while the chances of great failure are less; and those two facts - which we may remark en passant we believe to he real, especially as regards the second - ought of themselves to outweigh the heavy claims put in for experience in practical life...