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...rather idyllic beauty. The feeling of exclusiveness which even now enhances the value of Harvard Yale game tickets would become almost painful if everything depended on invitation-although the people eligible for invitations would be just the same ones who may now secure their tickets by application. And the sordid, commercial value of tickets would be enhanced as well. The black-list would have to be maintained, for those who might part with their birthright, for the celebrated mess of pottage. The only real difference would be that the Athletic Association would have no gate receipts...
...competition is open to everybody. A Yale man, Philip Barry, wrote "You and I" the prize winning 47 Workshop play of 1922. It would not be unbecoming for some genius of Music 4 to solve Yale's difficulty. Surely here is a chance for Harvard gallantry and incidentally, a sordid five hundred dollars...
...Liberal Club yesterday. "It is, rather, the search for truth with a free mind, and with a spirit of humility arising from faith in one's self, in human-kind, and in the verities of human progress. We are having disclosed day by day some of the most sordid events in our entire history. The price we pay for war, lawlessness, unbelievable political corruption, and a thousand other things constitute a great post-war debauchery...
...program of study, consisting mainly, it would seem, of training in the sacred dances of the East the Institute seeks to produce men with the physical control of Hindu ascetics, the intellectual development of the yogis, and the emotions of saints--assuredly a most admirable purpose except from certain sordid practical aspects...
...better has happened in a generation than this shifting of the political balance to a section which still maintains the old ideals of the Republic, which is not owned by its pocketbook, and which has never made a god of its bank account. To elect a President without the sordid assistance of New York, and the hardly less sordid assistance of Illi- nois, would be a double triumph. Even to lose the Presidency by a small margin in such circumstances would be a moral victory that Mr. Wilson could always remember with pride. The cash-register patriotism of New York...