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...this change in order does not argue decadence by any means, in those universities which formerly led. They have had uninterrupted prosperity, as a rule, and an increase of their own. Numbers may indicate prosperity, but there is a prosperity more substantial than they indicate. There is such a thing as an increase of quality as well as of quantity, and those universities which face a limitation of their physical expansion are forced to give their efforts to that. But both kinds of increase are encouraging signs of our national progress, and in them all true friends of education rejoice...
...rivalry of Oxford and Cambridge in sport therefore is a thing apart, a matter between themselves, something to be settled by 'young 'varsity gentlemen' without the pother and popular clamor which are the inevitable concomitants of intercollegiate contests in the United States...
...best friend beats you in a game; you simply try to beat him the next time you play. But with us, if your greatest rival upsets your whole campaign, which has included a number of contests with other rivals in which considerable prestige is lost by defeat, the only thing left to do, according to the American mind, is to get a more efficient organization which will prevent such a catastrophe in the ture. I leave it to the reader to select his own illustration of this peculiar American tendency...
...rivalry of Oxford and Cambridge in sport therefore is a thing apart, a matter between themselves, something to be settled by 'young 'varsity gentlemen' without the pother and popular clamor which are the inevitable concomitants of intercollegiate contests in the United States...
...best friend beats you in a game; you simply try to beat him the next time you play. But with us, if your greatest rival upsets your whole campaign, which has included a number of contests with other rivals in which considerable prestige is lost by defeat, the only thing left to do, according to the American mind, is to get a more efficient organization which will prevent such a catastrophe in the ture. I leave it to the reader to select his own illustration of this peculiar American tendency...