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To prepare for anything less certain than death seems folly to many of the sex, over-trained in patient waiting. Then there is the official who constantly sees the seamy side of industrial life and who concludes we can scarcely blame him that "it would be well if women were excluded entirely from factory life."
Jim Rodgers, who was a substitute at Yale that year, relates some interesting incidents of that game: "In those old strenuous days, they put so much fear of God in you, it scared you so you couldn't play. When we went up to Springfield, we were all over-trained. Instead of putting us up at a regular hotel, they put us up at the Christian Workers, that Stagg was interested in.
"And Heaven attend your council." He hurried off, and I beckoned to the head waiter. "Fetch me," I said, "a Virginian cigarette and a sherry and bitters." A true gourmet would probably shudder at such a first course, but it must be remembered that for three years my taste had had no opportunity of becoming over-trained.
Half an hour in the society of this over-trained young person left one exhausted and disillusioned with brainy women. I beg you to pay no such price for an education as this young girl paid. I remember you as a robust, rosy girl, with charming manners. Your mother was concerned, on my last visit, because I called you a pretty girl in your hearing.
Jack over-trained, trying for a new position on the football eleven, and that, with some extra studies he undertook, reduced his already tingling nerves to a condition where he was not at all himself." "A long rest and a change will set him up again in fine style," Walter wrote. "There is no need worrying, Cora," for he had written to her, rather than to Mrs.
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