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...quotations from the Cheated News printed today as "Comment" throw a revealing light on the factors affecting school boy in the choice of his college Prejudice, family influence, mistaken ideas, and details seems to be the elements which, more than any others, determine what way the pendulum will swing...
...sport. The detail in management; the minuteness of coaching necessary to the success of an eleven; the sometimes exaggerated publicity; secret practice, and the huge crowds attending the late season games have encroached on the old-time aim of college sport, which was the development of the undergraduate. The pendulum seems to have swung about as far that way as it will go. It is to be hoped that the swing the other way is to come in the near future...
America, influenced partly by the inevitable swing of the pendulum, partly by reaction against President Willson's system of personal government, and partly by a suspicion of the European connections into which the present Administration has carried her, is reverting resolutely to her habitual conservatism. That is the salient fact to be reckoned with for the next two and probably four years. How, it is necessary to ask, will that affect America's relations with the rest of the world and with this country in particular...
...narrowness" of nearly all men of scholastic attainment, who limit themselves only to studying. The man whose sole ambition in college is to get a "key" is fully as objectionable as the man whose one ambition is to get an "H" with as little studying as possible--although the pendulum of faculty approval swings toward the former, while student approbation swings decidedly the other...
While two page papers swing the pendulum too far the opposite way, still, the removal of the many extraneous sections and supplements which triple and quadruple the normal size of our journals would be a blessing. American publishers might well follow, in spirit at least, the example of Rome, for the combined conservation both of the forests and our mentality...