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...Social Service Committee offers an opportunity for various types of men; first, for those who feel a human-interest in the many problems of people of very limited means who live in the poorer sections of the city; for those who have some talent in a particular line such as teaching, coaching or music and wish to develop that by further practice; for those men who expect to enter business or politics at some future date and wish the opportunity to learn the points of view of the workers and of various foreign radical groups. So Social Service...
...little baseball, covered with kid. Stanley Mortimer and Clarence C. Pell, who play together as a doubles team (TIME, Feb. 10) played each other once again in the finals of the National Singles at the Boston Tennis and Racquet Club. Figured as a sure loser because of his poorer showing this year, and because he had a harder struggle to get in the finals, Mortimer made only one point in the second game, four in the third, then began to get his serve working and to run Pell around with beautiful low drives. Pell wearied. Mortimer ran out match...
...thundered he, "I warn the House that we are headed straight for the time when 'failure in health' or 'decrease in income' will be considered grounds for divorce! What then becomes of the sacred marriage vow 'in sickness or in health . . . for richer, for poorer . . . till Death us do part...
...vogue at Harvard. The successful development of a large body of men in earlier years would be much more satisfactory than a small number already excellently trained in a highly specialized sport upon entrance to college. It is unfortunate that the present financial status of many of the poorer schools will not permit such expansion, but it is not improbable that should the success of the policy of mass athletics in the universities be proven, the necessary funds would be forthcoming...
...Holmes' advocation of a closer connection between the coach and the student body by means of a position on the faculty is sound, and is already a necessity in the poorer schools because of less altruistic principles. The expense of an outside coach creates an exhausting drain on the athletic fund and it is often the case that he is a member of the faculty for purely financial reasons. In many of the larger private schools the coach is in closer communion with his pupils because of the mere fact that the administrator of the playing field overshadows the bookworm...