Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Agitation for reform in college sports contains both wheat and chaff--and a considerable amount of each. Too much publicity is one charge. Football could do with less space; the other sports are better adjusted to the amount of interest in them. Football, and, to a lesser degree, other sports have been overreaching themselves along the line of intersectional contests. Here is an immediate source of needless expense and overexploitation. In the matter of dual contests, at an rate, there is plenty of competition, all that is needed for interest and health, in each college's own section without going...
Wherever mortals and human institutions are found, do not expect perfection. The chronic fault-finder seldom considers this. Hence he is loud in his bellowing for reform...
...cured. "The underlying cause of economic trouble in the world is the unequal distribution of wealth. In England, one-tenth of the population owns nine-tenths of the wealth. In this country, 103 families control the 14 basic industries. I found students of Europe thinking, and leading in reform. I wish I could say the same thing of American students...
...this, attempts to raise the level of the American drama will be on the whole no more successful than attempting to raise one's self by one's boot-straps. Experiments on the professional stage without that scorned attribute, business success, can never hope to accomplish a permanent reform. Until the representative audience can appreciate a steady diet of good plays, the "Demi-Virgin" type of production will persevere. Unless this outside education of the audience can be accomplished, it may be necessary to apply St. John Ervine's heroic remedy a moratorium of the drama a closing...
...ideal and idealistic remedy, of course, is a reform among the managers themselves which would result in the production of only decent plays. But apparently such a reform is out of the question, if only for the reason that the indecent plays make money on the free advertising gained from the controversies about them. Such, at least, has been the history of one play still holding the boards in New York...