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...entirely at sea in one of the larger universities is thus given what he would otherwise lack--occasion to express him-self more easily. When man has learned that there are limits of his capabilities--as Dr. Holt seems to have learned--he is on the way to a saner and more efficient existence...
...college, the student cannot hope to gain a formula for future existence and a road map from college. He can get less easily catalogued gifts experience of mental freedom, the contact with cultivated minds (nor are they all dull or completely parched), the ability to adjust interests on some saner scale, the small but glorious gleam of reality which even the barest learning or the continued application of tobacco, friendship, and intelligence sometimes engenders. Mr. Aswell has too much faith in the American college student as a reformer, too little as a college student...
...faculty has, however, a saner appreciation of the question from a Harvard viewpoint since they have, for the most part, been members of the community for some time That they too see in moderation the best policy rather establishes the fact that those who are longest possessed of Harvard atmosphere find in the present state of things little to be commended...
...Harvard CRIMSON started a fanfare of criticism in this regard. The whole country seemed to be up in arms over night against the growing plague of over-emphasis. Destructive critiques advocated tearing the game to pieces; constructive thought proposed what may be termed a limitation of armaments and a saner public attitude. The CRIMSON put forth a plan whereby the Big Three would ignore the ambition for national supremacy each autumn, and limit themselves to a short season and their own petty and traditional rivalries. We supported the CRIMSON idea of reducing over-emphasis, but proclaimed loudly against the proposed...
...great ballyhoos start again, this time from the American faculty camp. It seems to be a case of overemphasis over-emphasized. Is there no saner method of correcting this unbalanced perspective than by depriving student America of its most healthful and wholesome enterprise? Football has a thousand times as many virtues as vices. The game itself has no bad features. It is the emphasis which the public lends it, and if the vicious circle is started this results in distorting values among the players and coaches themselves. Hence the black sheep in this problem are the newspapers and football fans...