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Believing, with the Lord's Day League, that one day a week should be devoted to absolute rest and quiet, the CRIMSON ball team has set aside today for the purpose, and has accordingly scheduled a contest with the Phi Beta Kappa nine for this afternoon. Weary with intellectual toil, the scholars will creep to Soldiers Field in time to meet the journalistic juggernaut at about 3.30 o'clock. Partisans of the superlative students say that they will show a lot of inside baseball; but this does not discourage the CRIMSON. Past experience shows that Phi Beta Kappa baseball...
...most healthy in the unprofessional idea of things. About us on all sides are evidences of a professionalism made all too necessary in a country where commercial development has not yet left much room for deliberate, peaceful thought, nor the pursuance of artistic ideals. The market value of toil and ambition, of genius, of capacity for understanding, is what we are all most familiar with; so much so that it is easy to forget what the love of a task for itself really means. It is this amateur spirit that is cherished and guarded in our universities and schools...
...Moreover, we all know that the young men and youths who took part in that war were made better men, morally, mentally, and physically. Such service ever has been the great counteracting influence against the selfish aims and cares of everyday life. A man who engages in trade or toil, buys and sells by the yard and pound, and as the years roll on becomes as narrow and mean as his smallest measure. But war breaks out, his country calls, he throws aside all personal interests, takes up arms in her defence and becomes a patriot and a hero...
From boasting in another's toil...
Robert Archey Woods, a man who labors to raise his fellow men; trusted alike by those who toil and those who think; a knight of Christ's chivalry without fear and without reproach...