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...further safeguard against lowering the College standard, men so admitted might easily be required to maintain a higher record in their College work...
Apart from a few owners of Mexican property, no one in this country favors an aggressive foreign policy, but we are bound to protect our own rights and the rights of others whose interests we are pledged to safeguard. The events of the last few months have shown that no rights, moral or loyal, are safe unless backed by force. So long as international highwaymen exist and there is no international police to cope with them, peaceful nations must arm in their own defence. The present conflict will probably dispose of a few of the more notorious highwaymen, but there...
Agitation is said to be a sign of great growth; and it was aptly put by one of our great leaders, that "agitation is the safeguard of democracy." A great material nation is what we want. We do not want the Puritan ahead of the Yankee, or vice-versa; what we do want is the Puritan and the Yankee on equal terms. It is the imperfect political organization of a country that holds men down to hard work with meagre pay. The more that men realize this and help to improve it, the better the conditions of the various countries...
...many of these in each class, the chief trouble being that they have no definite objective in their College lives. One must stand back from one's ideal to get a proper perspective of it. Then, seeing clearly what it is that one wants, one has the first safeguard against being a knotless thread. It is difficult to select one object out of the many offered; but one worthy should be chosen and be given a man's entire force. A thing that is worth while should be done and it should be done hard...
...which the players are physically unfit or the proper medical attention is not given that serious accidents are most likely to happen. In drafting its rules the Committee has to consider not only the big institutions where football is played under the most favorable conditions and where every safeguard in the way of training and the use of substitutes is employed, but also the hundreds of smaller colleges and secondary schools where substitutes are few and trainers' bills must be kept...