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. . . . And the overshadowing influence of football does not end with the last game of the season. The sport distorts the whole social structure of the average American college. Even in the most professedly democratic institutions caste, grows up around football prowess. . . . One of the literary clubs of Yale languished until it was revived by the happy accident that a football Captain happened to have a nice taste-in verse. And that season poetry became popular and quite the thing to do. But the risk is too great. Another century may elapse before there comes again to college one who can turn an end and a couplet.
I have hopes for Harvard. I don't believe that up in Cambridge they bow down to worship the men of the eleven any more, but what are we going to do about Yale? --Heywood Brown in the New York World, November 5.
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