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...principal issue raised by Professor Richardson in his report to the N. C. A. A. is that of keeping the college amateur from the professional taint and yet not drawing too line a line. Professor Richardson pointed with approval to the position taken by the Harvard Advisory Committee. Charges of professionalism have been made against college men who play on hotel baseball teams, or are active in the game as camp counselors, or give athletic instruction in some other form. The Harvard position is that such participation does not impair their amateur standing...
...Chamberlain's true worth. You will remember that Macaulay writes of Gladstone as one of those "stern and unbending Tories." Macaulay was right. Gladstone was an aristocrat by birth. It was just as true of him as any other human being that "environment will never totally eradicate the taint of heredity...
...Yale, Harvard, and Princeton student dailies and the frequent protests from faculty members, reveal the growing revolt against the evil influences of a great sport. . . . . It is the friends of football who are concerned about it now. They hope to see it stripped of its unhealthy intensity, its taint of commercialism and again to find in it more of sportsmanship and a little less...
...unmitigated pimp, who procured Cressida for the dissolute Troilus? To a scholarly mind your use of pander in place of "agent" and without the connotation of lasciviousness is intolerably careless. Thomas Cook & Son are no more panders than is a magazine such as TIME. Neither attains to the requisite taint of immorality...
...captains of industry the ancient but immortal truths that man doth not live by logic only, or by bread only, and that if the undergraduate does not, while yet he may, acquire a taste for those arts surely to be called liberal because fine, and free from all taint of professionalism, the graduate runs serious risk of never acquiring...