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...latest of the many suggestions for the panacea which is to keep college athletics free from any taint of professionalism is a board of control for Harvard, Yale and Princeton. We have said so much of late (but so have a lot of other people) about college athletics--and particularly about intercollegiate football--that we hesitate to devote any more space to it. This, however, we hope will be the last for some time to come...
...Hinshfield's beginning is admirable, and the testimony of his first two witnesses equally so. He starts with the opinion that there is an anti-American taint in all of the text books. He expresses his intention not to call in expert testimony on the grounds that experts have a strong idea of their own infallibility. The first witness was an insurance man "with an historical hobby", and the second an editorial writer, author of charges that history writing for the schools has become is vehicle for British propaganda...
...must have felt that the term "prize play" is a trifle misleading. For while "Mamma's Affair", which won for Miss Butler the Morosco prize for 1919, is an interesting and often clever little piece, it can scarcely be termed anything very exceptional. Certainly it is free from the taint of being "highbrow" which is so often associated with the name of Harvard, and a well-filled house received with apparent enjoyment the oft repeated walling of "mamma", who is a "sentimental hypochrondiac". The first act is slow, the second good, the third excellent. If we admit that a prize...
...well, however, when all aspects of the tangle are considered, that another election should be called. It is imperative that the Seniors should start with a clean slate. The poll next Monday must be free from any taint of suspicion. There must be no such guarded hints of club or caste prejudice, private or social interest, as have disgraced former elections. Full justice must be done...
...Washington's birthplace but to the city of that name which an unconstitutional ordinance against free speech. As I have learned today that a higher court declared the ordinance unconstitutional I hope by the time I see an audience of Harvard students to be entirely free of any taint of crime...