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...America the "unemployed" are equally well off. Only the other day the newspapers printed the story of a tramp who rang the back doorbell of a Connecticut house and to the lady there of said, "Can you let me have a little food, mam, for a pore, hongry man, or just a few pennies, or some of your husband's old clothes." She refused his request and thereupon he went out to the street, stepped into his powerful car, and rode off in high dudgeon...
...over now, but the flagstones of Memorial must feel like the tramp steamer whose captain reported that the whole Atlantic had swept over them, but, the deck holding, it had passed on off the other side...
...said in our editorial Friday, the purpose of requiring that all transfer students pass entrance examinations before competing in sports, was to avoid the necessity of making the transfer totally ineligible. These are the two alternatives for eliminating the "tramp" athlete; the less drastic of the two was chosen...
...being sent to college to play on the teams by some well-meaning but misguided alumnus. It is almost a corollary to this that no scholarship should be given a man without that fact being made public, and without the approval of the college authorities. The transfer athlete, or "tramp", is one of the worst results of present over-emphasis on athletics; because an individual can acquire a great deal of fame by playing on a college team, many wish to go to college for that reason alone. Often such transfers enter another college at first because they are unable...
...college term practice; (3) Abolish all advertising, of any intentional sort, of intercollegiate contests; (4) Eliminate as much as possible intersectional contests--so far as this is compatible with playing, opponents of equal strength. The matter of subsifized athletes, clean playing, professional coaching, and the so-called "tramp" athlete, are not problems which can be successfully dealt with by rule; no college need have any of these if it does not so choose...