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...absolutely unquestioned amateurs on our teams. There should not be any subsidizing of athletics . . . ." All this is pertinent, and preventative steps should be taken if necessary. Professor Mendell discussed two phases of professionalism, namely, the tendency of the coaches to make the game their own, and the so-called "tramp" athlete. Again, well worth consideration...
...patriotic orators hailed with enthusiasm the construction of a huge merchant marine, with which, after the war, the nation was to secure the commercial supremacy of the seas. But the American fleet has failed to capture the trade routes from England and other European nations; while foreign tramp steamers are picking up cargoes here and there, sufficient to pay operating expenses, an undue number of United States ships are tied up at the wharves, a dead loss to their owners...
William McFee is the ship's engineer of a tramp steamer travelling hither and yon over the Seven Seas. This man of machines, who loves the intricacies of boilers and turbines, is at the same time a writer and a thinker of unusual merit. With the eyes of a poet, he surveys the life about him, on shipboard, in unfrequented corners of the earth, and then, in his spare time, he gives his impressions to the world through essays and short sketches that have a scholarly tone reminiscent of Lamb, yet enlivened by a virile strain inseparable from...
...Jackson, in his well-known character of a half-witted tramp, kept the audience convulsed without speaking a word, by attempting to steal a bicycle. The Ziegler sisters in their dance act set an example which might well be followed by other stage dancers. The Century Revue, with Jimmy Hussey, was well executed, and was the one thing necessary to complete a well rounded-out program...
...Letters of an Ocean Tramp." the first book by William McFee, was regularity published for the first time in this country in Doubledy, Page & Company on April 29th. Only few copies of the London edition have strayed to American and these are so rare and difficult to obtain that the growing army of McFee admirer has demanded a new edition. This is reprinted from the original book and there is in addition a 6000-ward pretaee by the author...