New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-21

Is genuine camaraderie among athletes. Old fash
Toned investors may still be found who like paying
their commissions broker whose name has
been honored IN The Field" Here and there, per-
haps, solicitor Is 50 saturated with the traditions
OF his boyhood that he will carry brief to the
chambers of DISTINGUISHED cricketer in Lincolns
ance and showing him OFF afterward at a dinner
party of jolly old buffers like himself But the
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STAG NIGHTS shv of the heh-ciass firm Who stand
|, goes 10 that busnesslike Mr. Jacobs who will
accept one-siXtecnth. and deserts him in turn
when he hears Of the still more enterprisng Mr..
Levy, Just set NJ. who Will take one thrty-second
away. now that so much Of the most important
business has come under the control of foreign or
half-foreisn maenates. who neither admire nor
dcrstand what il an essentially, one might add an
aggressivey. British product
EVIL RESULTS OF ATHLETICS.
From fairly wide acquaintance among contem-
porares-men between thirty and forty years OF
making their mark, the writer is inclined regard
The disappointed ones as almost. though quite
Identical with those who the best of their
young time 10 athletics. and treated lessons and
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few exceptions 10 that classification there is not
one who. on taxing 10 work. did not give up play.
graduate attends his lectures and reads his
Re9tby than in some outdooF spor We We more tb
or college knowing lust the same things as all his
felows-a little more than most Of them, or. the
ease may be. Il little less 1t does not make much
difference lie Will only he but more reproduce
ton Of normal pattern-a pattern which has
largely some out Of use. The regulation curriculum
perhaps as good any inelastic systcm-includes
"A certain number Of subjects (clIssics. English and
mathematics with sm9ttering of modern Ian;
euagcs ana science. mixed according to taste and
capacity). which. for all practical purposes are
common property There IS not one Of these at
tanmehts Which fetchts price In the open market
If il bc only of average quality. There Is not
which does not command purchaser, Of some or
other kind. II II Is any way out OF the common The
youns man VINO can do some particular thing bet
ter than anybody else IN his circle Of compel
itors need never 60 begging for q patron. But you
cannot get quotation for all-round average merit
that the future is for one-sdcd men those who
have made the most Of their special gift or they
trltod themselves upon one Now 1t Is just this
pa REHABILITATION. this possibly lop-sided develop
mtnt. which Is checked If the learning years are
eutnf the after life moulded M, old
fahbioned traninS-thc almost equal division be-
tween mental ana bodily education. It's demands
on the time and energy of those who undergo II are
fcrcniatc himself from his likes He has no rea-
son 10 show why he should be chosen In preference
10 any body else who Is similarly furnished inside
ana outside.
THE USE or THE CASUAL APTITUDE.
IT is the experience of most men who have worked
thar way inward without special interest or ex-
ce,tional opportunities that the long-awaited
chfnce OF distinction has come through almost
GA Ial aptitude for some position, for some under
taking a little out of the ordinary run. And II is
failures lamcnting that he has lost such capital
on ming" lust because he did know had
could ever have thought would he OF any use. IT
is The stray fragment Of botany. perhaps or chem
isrry. the sudden flash Of a geographical or legal
"Reminiscences. which makes q man valuable In
en- ergency. which suggests lucrative enterprise
or gives him the advantage I'm "A technical contro-
vc.sv over an opponent who knows everything else
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