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Incidentally, the self-appointed critics are now free to wend their way out of the Augean stables. Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth and Radcliffe are cleansed from any taint of originality. There is no retort--except, possibly, the rather ineffectual expedient of mentioning the Eleventh Commandment, whose essence is concerned mostly with minding one's business...
...effect. Mr. Gandhi knew that as he spoke hundreds of children all over India were being married by parents frantically anxious to get their sons and daughters in under the wire. (Theory: a mature man who marries a babe, aged two, knows that the young spouse is without worldly taint...
...Said Bulletin 23, lengthily but pointedly: Out of the 112 colleges and universities examined, 81 have '"subsidized" athletes. The remaining 28, free from any such taint of professionalism, were the following...
Apparently those who live in glass houses, not content with a mere throwing of stones, have entered into a somewhat ragged game of catch with the big leagues. It is too early to predict the outcome of the contest, but the constant mention of money adds a taint of professionalism to the proceedings which cannot fall to arouse regret in the ranks of the amateur garden clubs involved. So far the hothouse gang seems to have the edge but the experts are talking knowingly about the dark horse pitcher held in reserve by the big league...
...matter of subsidizing athletes by assigning exclusively to them the working of various valuable concessions controlled by the Athletic Association was the one point in which the Harvard athletic policy was found wanting. Fortunately all taint of using these concessions as a recruiting inducement has long since been removed at Harvard by the fact that no Freshman has been allowed to enjoy them. In fact, it is quite obvious that under the administration of Mr. Bingham, the concessions have been operated with a view to reducing all the evils in the past associated with the practice. Undoubtedly the fact that...