Sport: Wanted

It is nobody's secret that good high-school football players usually manage to get scholarshipped to college, but until last fortnight few suspected that such commercialism had invaded private preparatory schools. Even colleges that are more-or-less frankly professional do not usually resort to want ads. But a want ad was just what appeared in the Commercial Notices of New York newspapers:

''High-school football players offered full scholarship in military school at once, Υ 2045."

¶ The Harvard-Yale game of the prep schools is the 59-year-old series between Exeter and Andover. Last week at...

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