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What is an amateur? a person who engages without remuneration in sport. Whether he is in it for publicity or pleasure, he is free to drop out when he chooses, and while the public may admire his prowess, it owes him no more for following his inclinations than it does to the spring crop of marble players. The distinction between amateur and professional is still far from trenchant; and it must be zealously guarded for the good, of amateur and professional sportsmen alike...
These are some of the reasons why it has been said, "There is more Hoover in the Administration than any other one person...
...Decree: "In the name of the welfare of the people, the National Consultative Assembly de clares the abolition of the Kajar Sovereignty,* and within the limits of the constitution and laws of Persia entrusts Provisional Government to the person of Reza Kahn Pahlavi. The determining of a form of permanent government shall be made by the Constituent Assembly, which shall for this purpose amend the constitution as may be necessary...
...neck were involved with various gems, sat in a box to hear the Chicago Civic Opera open its season with Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. While it may have appeared that she was foolhardy to let herself be seen with so great a fortune glittering upon her person, a critic in the next box observed that she spent her time toying with an object which she took from her vanitv case. It was a police-whistle...
...before the college board was thought of and will probably still be there long after the board is defunct. How can education be humanized? how can the Greek operative and the French subjunctive be made so translucent that they do not obscure the beauty of literature for the average person who studies them? Able educators realize the problem with a professional keenness probably beyond the reach of Mr. Abbott's amateur interest; if they solve it, the cons of the present college generation will have nothing but pity for the academic benefits which their fathers derived from college...