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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Too few of the sport writing fraternity recognize their stewardship in respect to the ethics and morals of amateur sport. This may be due to self-consciousness, or sheer ignorance of the sanctity of their calling. Or it may be that damnable attitude which is marked throughout the whole American...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 5/27/1921 | See Source »

The natural consequence is that he must look on his profession in a new light. When he talks football he must include not only a knowledge of the gridiron jargon, but an understanding of the commercial aspect which threatens the game; if it is rowing or track he must remember...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPORT SCRIBE AT WORK | 5/27/1921 | See Source »

As an example of what a man in this profession must face, Mr. Perry recalls how one writer was convinced that a certain institution was using methods which were prejudicial to his best interests in order to win a football game from its rival. He wrote fearlessly and checked the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPORT SCRIBE AT WORK | 5/27/1921 | See Source »

How to make teaching as a profession attractive to men of ability-how to put it on a plane where it can compete with other occupations-this is a problem which will demand much thought and some action by the people of this country within the next generation. The leadership...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 5/18/1921 | See Source »

The New York Times quotes the results of a questionnaire sent to a number of former school teachers drawn into government service during the war, of whom but nine per cent expressed the intention of returning to teaching, and proceeds to elaborate the reasons which make school teaching an unattractive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 5/18/1921 | See Source »

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