Education: Food, Flop & Tuition

Last week from George Washington University (Washington, D. C.) came new and astonishing light on the Tramp Athlete. Eleven members of the freshman football squad appointed a spokesman—Carrol Robinson of Salem, N. J., crack tackle—to present to Coach James Ebenezer Pixlee their demands: that the wages which they earned as janitors, watchmen, waiters be given to them for spending money, that their board and tuition to which their earnings are normally applied be given them gratis. Coach Pixlee, unable to meet their requests, was considerably embarrassed when the cream of his team walked...

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