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...suggestion of Heywood Broun offers at least an intelligent solution, if not a panacea for tennis ills. To rate players as professional upon a basis of skill would do away with the problem of compensation, and the rank would be in the nature of a healthful prize; Helen Wills could then meet Lenglen on a salary basis with no questions asked; and young Doeg could resume his studies when his services were no longer needed in defense of America's athletic reputation...
Moreover, he advances a panacea which if it could be practically applied would certainly remedy a situation, the instability and uncertainty of which at least no one will deny. Nowhere is the utter neglect of reliable standards more evident than in university and college life in general. And when, in the face of this fact, the impossibility of attaining an intrinsically sound basis outside of the circle of higher education in considered, the outlook is sinister. Standards conducive to stabilization are all too few, and the average student in most cases has enough intelligence to regret the time, energy...
...work of the League be regarded as it was by Woodrow Wilson in the light of a panacea for all international ills, there is little comfort in the record of the past eight years. Overlook the work of the Conventions as the people do, and the one achievement of the League of Nations is that it meets...
...entering college. The Engineering student, fully occupied with the rigorous requirements of his specialized training, has not the incidental opportunity to develop a clear and facile style in writing which literature courses, and written reports afford his classmate in the College. Moreover, while English A was far from a panacea for all difficulties, the abolition of the English. A requirement for those who pass the English college board with a mark of 70 per cent or better has complicated rather than solved the problem. Confronted by the danger of having its students receive no more training in English literature...
...their day the American suffragets promised that woman suffrage would prove a panacea for the political situation. Since 1920, however, many have been disillusioned in their expectation of this great revolution of the national machine. Now comes the prediction that the complete enfranchisement of women in England, if carried out, will place the management of the country in their hands, since they outnumber the men, and in conservative quarters this fact naturally outweighs all the psychological and sociological arguments against giving equality to men and women voters...