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_From the editorial columns of the New York "Evening Post" for July 7,
1933, and October 11, 1938:_
(1) "Scholastic competitions have ceased to be the means to an end and
have become an end in themselves. The passion to win has swept away
every other consideration. Professionalism has laid its tainted hand on
the sports of our college youth. High-priced professors from the
University of Leipzig and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes are engaged to
drill our teams to victory. Men who should have long ago taken their
Ph.D. have been known deliberately to flunk examinations so as to be
eligible for the 'varsity contests. Promising students in the
preparatory schools are bribed to enroll with this or that college. The
whole problem of summer mathematics reeks to heaven. It is not enough
that a student during eight months of the year will put in all his
time on invariants and the theory of numbers. Vacation time finds him
at some fashionable resort, tutoring the sons of millionaires in
multiplication and quadratic equations.
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