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Undergraduates and graduates, athletes and more spectators can join hands over the action of the Athletic Association in retaining Mr. Arnold Horween for another season as chief moulder of Harvard football destiny. Whatever has been the result of his first two years' efforts, indifferent success or a gradual building up process, there has never arisen a question as to his pre-eminent qualities as a gentleman and a worthy tutor of young men in the important field of sportsmanship...
Since Mr. Horween gave up his own work two years ago with the purpose of dragging the Crimson out of the football dumps, no brilliant success has attended his efforts. The surprising fact is that he has escaped, publicly, at least, the customary campaign of organized criticism. Pleasant as it would be to point to this virtue of silence as a distinctive Harvard trait, it must be said that much of the credit is due to the work and personal character of Mr. Horween himself. His quiet, unassuming, and business-like manner make him a difficult mark for the anvil...
...distressed by the lack of intellectual interests shown by the young friends his boys were bringing to the house. "The only thing they talk about is athletics!" He strove to counteract this influence in his own family by the reading of good literature every evening after dinner--not without success; and he later prepared several volumes of graded selections of the best literature, to provide other parents' children with material for the cultivation of a taste for good reading; for, "good reading," he said, "was the most generally available and one of the most efficient means of cultivating the imagination...
...Authors Huntington, able Yale environist, and Whitney, able Secretary of the American Eugenics Society, with many a diagram and graph, powerfully defend their contention that the intelligent minority should be more prolific. Most novel, indisputable, disastrous, are the statistics which they produce upon those who achieve irritating and ephemeral success during their collegiate careers, and who, when they graduate, are reluctant to duplicate their superiorities in offspring. Even chorus girls and stage ladies perpetuate their fame less frequently than they should. This and many other facts make The Builders an arrestingly entertaining as well as a significant comment on contemporary...
...events which Sullivan records were taking place; they are amused by the book because in a way it is a tablet of personal reminiscences. The younger people of today, however, the people of college age, form the real vanguard of Sullivan's larger public. They hear witness to the success of his experiment, for he has re-created a period of transition for them, a period with which they have had little or no direct contact...