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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...League of Peace is, therefore, the fact that though an association of moderately democratic countries has overcome the militaristic combine which tried to make itself the dominant power in the world, peace will leave the conquered countries in ruins, unless the solid, stable part of the world unites to set it in order and to give it the opportunity to grow into strength. A combination of nations has been found absolutely necessary to fight the war; without some combination of nations, there will be another war to fight before many years...
...Yale Board of Athletic Control has set forth radical changes in the general athletic policy. Great benefits are in the new system in so far as athletics for the undergraduate body are developed, and in the establishment of good athletic supervision. But in the spirit of reorganization, Yale seems to have overshot the mark and evidences a desire to win at all costs. This aspiration to retrieve the fallen Eli athletic laurels seems to have gone beyond the scope of the desired reconstruction, in the reduction of the much discussed expensive semi-professionalism of college athletics, particularly by the resumption...
...ever so. The Puritans in old England fought for religious toleration only to become more intolerant than the Churchmen when they came to power. The Bolsheviki overthrew the worst despotism in Europe only to set up the most sinister tyranny that history has recorded. Liberty we fear, is still invoked by certain radicals only in so far as it can be made to favor their aims...
Yale's Board of Athletic Control, at its first meeting since America's entry into the World War adopted a set of radical alterations in the general athletic policy. The changes which were made were presented to the board in a petition from the undergraduates, and in some cases varied widely from the plans which have been under consideration by the alumni who have conferred with the University and Princeton for the control of athletics in the triangular league...
...Three,' of becoming exclusive. We have practically the same teams on our schedules this year as formerly. No exclusiveness as to schedule, games, or rules is intended. Yale, Princeton, and the university simply want to play one another and have found it of great advantage to have the same set of rules. By attempting to make the union close is meant not making it in the least exclusive but merely attaining more perfect co-operation for mutual benefit. The purpose of the triangular arrangement is not to attempt to dictate rules but to agree to certain regulations which are peculiarly...