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When Coach Fisher's reorganized Crimson eleven meets Indiana today at 3 o'clock in the Stadium, it will meet a real test, a test, however, that will be very much different from that which the University bucked up against last fall when it played Valparaiso, the western invader of 1920. Valparaiso was a "mystery" team about which the Crimson strategists knew comparatively little. Indiana is not. And unless Coach Steihm has pulled the wool completely over the eyes of this year's gridiron followers, his team this afternoon will display a conservative brand of football with trick plays...
...easy to determine just what happened at Valparaiso University, Indiana, an institution more populous than Yale, which has been widely advertised by its democratic methods...
...resigned, explains that "there has been fostered by the faculty and outsiders, Bolshevism, Communism and other cults the practice of which is destructive to American ideals and principles;" and that the propaganda "can be traced to the heart of the Federal Government"--which has sent soldiers to Valparaiso for education...
...industrial life" suggests a state of nerves-Loyalty to Americanism is all right; but how can anybody be loyal to American or even Russian, "industrial life"? The thing simply cannot be done. In a calmer moment Dr. Hodgdon may recall his resignation. His high opportunity is to stay in Valparaiso and fight the cults where they grow. New York World
...Hodgdon does not appear to have understood that Valparaiso is unique among educational institutions. In almost all other schools and colleges, athletics, fraternities, social activities, things outside of studies, have come to occupy the chief attention of many students, simply because the students are more interested in them than in their studies. But in Valparaiso the students have always been more interested in their studies than in these other activities. This is a remarkable situation and it marks Valparaiso as an institution apart from others. Such a mark of distinction ought by all means to be retained...