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...possible, be a man who has had some active experience in University athletics, at least a man who thoroughly understands the needs of the teams and the way in which they are managed. If a man with such experience could be found who also had some qualifications as a sort of advisory coach for the various teams, his position would be immensely stronger, and he would be the most effective kind of graduate treasurer. To such an officer ought to be given the general financial supervision of all sports, and as far as practicable all accounts should be carried...
...resources, have to economize strictly, but there is no doubt whatever that expenditures for the football and baseball teams, if not for crew or track, could be cut down largely by careful and business-like management, without hurting the teams. The pay of coaches, if they are the right sort, is I believe a legitimate expense, and a necessary one if we are to have first-class teams; but extravagance in training tables in the buying and use of uniforms and other supplies, and duplication and loose ends of various sorts run the expenses of the big teams...
...doesn't suck his thumbs or sit and holler "Oxford!" "Oxford!" He is fond of exercise, a couple of hours of it every day and he will have it. The result of this is he is always having or preparing for a game or a tussle of some sort and he never has an attack of nerves when the tussle is going on or after it is finished. Some of the Cambridge crew who rowed against Harvard this year had rowed in thirty and more races. And the undergraduate who gets no further than the "Torpids" while in college...
...months' duration into the surrounding territory. The scientific objects of the work will be to gather all possible information on the origin, manners of life, physical characteristics, and civilization of these South American tribes of Indians about whom little is known. The only expedition of this sort made into this territory was conducted by Germans; but as their work was very incomplete, the region, from an ethnological point of view, is practically unexplored...
...third "Travel Paper of Arminius," is literary chat of a cheerful and graceful sort, showing observation and descriptive skill. "Arlin the Thief" is written in clear, straightforward English but with somewhat inadequate power. In "The Vision of Unfulfilled Desire" the dialogue is not thoroughly effective; but the study of perfunctory married life, made worse by the woman's effort to better it, is well conceived...