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...main value of retaliation is to lessen injuries by discouraging them. But a war aiming to defend American lives or to establish international law seems valueless to me because I think it would defeat its own ends. Another use of retaliation is to win prestige. I myself put faith in other expedients than war to gain a less precarious and less costly prestige. But war can be strongly argued on the ground of prestige and also on the premise that the Allies cause is our cause. To wage war as a point of honor, however, seems...
...abandonment of intercollegiate sport. Supposing this were done. Supposing also that Princeton and Harvard joined with Yale in their radical step? The effects would be rather far reaching. Primarily we would see immense amphitheaters representing an enormous investment--$500,000 in the case of the Yale Bowl--standing as valueless relics. We would see the abrupt cessation of the income, with the equally immediate collapse of various non-productive' sports to the support of which this annual increment has been devoted...
...second is a master of the pivot work around the keystone station, and while not rated a heavy hitter, is a difficult man to pitch to and fast on the bases. Both these men possess the "baseball brains" without which mere mechanical perfection of execution is often valueless...
...Frankfurter. "Never in history has there been such a seething time of intellectual ferment. A great part of the management of present day affairs lies in the hands of the legally trained man. Application to the work of the courses is a necessary part of such tr5aining, but is valueless without a realization of its real, living application to outside forces and the passing affairs of life...
...enough to give any reader the impression that to win the football championship of the east we have only to trust to the ability of several individuals who were on the team last year. The CRIMSON believes that the thinking undergraduate will immediately discard these "doped" press statements as valueless and accede to the following truths which must be realized about the Harvard football situation...