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...perfectly true that the present system of high-pressure football thrown on the altar of the golden calf, is not an ideal one, either from the general standpoint of sportsmanship, or from the point of view of the players. Nevertheless, it is equally true that the system has advantages, that it permits a greater expansion of lesser sports, and that in any case, it will not be altered until the Athletic Association places all sport on a sound financial basis. If and when the football system goes, West Point, since it is an unsuitable match for Harvard from the standpoint...
Perfectly logical from the Nazi standpoint, this "lifting" springs from Adolf Hitler's firm belief that his State must strive to create a "pure German race" and that the race today is purest among rustic homesteaders unpolluted by the "Jewish Marxism" to be found in German towns. By setting apart and pampering the peasants Leader Hitler hopes to rear an "aristocracy of blood...
There is little justification for this exaction from any standpoint. The $40,000 is being spent, not for the purpose of getting work done, but for the purpose of getting men through College. The fact that the donation puts those who accept it under obligation to the University is not a reason for the University to exert its rights, as it is now exerting them, to its own detriment...
...development of the tutorial system and the House Plan is retarded by needlessly occupying 200 students with clerical work, errand running and dishwashing for three hours a day. And from the standpoint of the University, the work done by students under the Plan is superfluous. For despite protestations by department heads and House masters that work under the Plan is useful, the fact remains that the temporary jobs have never existed before, and will never exist again if the Plan is discontinued...
...observation. You wouldn't call this a part I've got at all. It's a study. This fellow's got a great reading public, too -I imagine he has, anyway, and so it's got to be looked at from a literary standpoint...