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Show As It Should Be EASTERN newspapers some of them marvel that the registration of the eastern universities universi-ties are gauged year by year by the success of the football victories of those universities the previous year. Thus It is explained that "in one year following a crimson victory over Yale the Harvard entering class gained 27 per cent." That to us seems entirely natural, because if we know the motives of those students in entering enter-ing the university, the chances are ten to one that not half of them were dreaming of ever being be-ing great scholars or of making a name In any high calling, but they wanted a diploiria for the prima facia evidence it gives of character and scholarship, but they were dreaming that after graduation, they would be accomplished in all manly accomplishments in sporting fields, foot ball, baseball, oarsmen, foot racing, and some of l' them wanted to go so far as boxing and being handy with the foils. Hence they gravitated to the school which seemed to have the best mas- i ters or the best luck in instilling those accomplishments. accom-plishments. (Continued on Pago 4.) I AS IT SHOULD BE. B (Continued from Pago 2.) H And it is not a bad idea. No stream can rise H higher than its source, and it is hotter for a man H to he a great football player than nothing. Again, H a fine oarsman might through his knowledge be H able to save human lives through his art, or be H induced to join a warship's crew in a time of H crisis for his country and to perform splendid H service, whereas wtihout that knowledge, his life H might be worn out in the dull round of unevent- H ful duties. It takes all kinds of men to make a H world, why not give all men a chance? |