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With its clean sweep in the Holy Cross race last week the University team added to its unbroken series of victories. For three years both the University and Freshman harriers have defeated Yale in the dual meet, and have been under a strict training regimen in preparation for the Yale race next week...
...movement has been almost wholly beneficial. Many an unwilling student has studied hard in order to make his team, many a law-breaking student has conformed to social custom in order to make good on the field, many an injurious habit has been given up for the Spartan regimen of the training table. Moral qualities of leadership and teamwork, the tough muscle and the steady eve are the reward of American athletes. And as in the case of the fraternity, the faculty which ignored the existence of this great institution has come to realize that unless it makes of athletics...
...fall in their mid-teens, among many women, beginning with some warm young Brazilians. The New Englander is told off to inculcate hygiene in this young Marcantonio, whose passions incline also to driving highpowered motor cars and training with spasmodic vehemence to become an Olympic foot-racer. The hygienic regimen is balked by Marcantonio's incestuous flare-up with his half-sister, ending in suicide...
...Twenty years ago Father Frederick H. Sill of the Order of the Holy Cross (Episcopal) procured an old farmhouse near Kent, Conn., enrolled 18 pupils and three masters, founded Kent School. The first night of school the headmaster cooked scrambled eggs which the boys served, the beginning of a regimen of self-help that has continued until today, when Kent is a flourishing school of 200 boys. Kent teaches self-reliance, directness of purpose and simplicity of life, in a quiet rural community...
...about 65, I had another bad day. Instantly I analyzed the cause. My secretary, who had charge of my office regimen", told me that cigars came and went with too much rapidity-proved that I had the habit of smoking 25 cigars a day. . . . I've never smoked since...