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...their minds. Surely athletics must be reduced to a position of less importance in our colleges; there is no end which we desire more. But this end will not be accomplished by mere regulative and hostile legislation on the part of our faculties. Such regulation usually serves only to widen the gap between students and teachers and to give the undergraduates the sense that they are being "balked." By flatly recognizing that athletics are run on a system often, superior to the discipline of the college, by studying their technic, and applying it to their own methods, our faculties could...
...illiterate, with his low wage, his low standard of living, his tendency to congest in the alums, to enter unrestricted;--gorge the labor market, force hundreds of thousands out of work, prevent any permanent betterment in the laborer's status, further pauperism, lawlessness, revolution, curse the nation with ignorance, widen the chasm between wealth and poverty,--or, restrict! Allow this nation to face its own problems, protect its rights and liberties, establish justice from the laborer up, solve the problems for the true democracy, for ourselves and all nations, not the least for those nations whose immigration we find...
...finally been decided to widen the straightaway part of the track in the Stadium, so as to make room for five hurdlers in the Intercollegiate Track Meet...
...widen Boylston street by taking ten feet on the easterly side between Harvard square and the river...
...open DeWolfe street more directly from Quincy square, and widen it to the river...