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(2) "Thus our so-called student 'activities' are neither active in the
true sense, nor fit for students. There has grown up a small clan of
intellectual athletes who win victories while thousands of mediocre
students, six feet and over and having an average weight of 195 pounds,
stand around and cheer. Our student-managers have become men of
business, purely. The receipts at the last Harvard-Yale debate on the
popular election of United States senators amounted to more than
$50,000. The Greek philology team spends three-quarters of its time in
touring the country. The _Evening Howl_ prints the pictures of the
[Greek: Phi Beta Kappa] members every other day. It is time to call a
halt."
VI
ON CALLING WHITE BLACK
If it were not for the deadly hatred that exists between Bob, who will
be four years old very soon, and Abdul Hamid II, late Sultan of Turkey,
I hardly know what would become of my moral standards. Whenever my sense
of right and wrong grows blunted; whenever the inextricable confusion of
good and bad in everything about us becomes unusually depressing, I have
only to recall how virulent, how inflexible, how certain is Bob's
judgment on the character and career of the deposed Ottoman despot.
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