The Higher Education by Franklin P. Adams — Read

(Harvard's prestige in football is a leading factor. The best / players in the big preparatory schools prefer to study at / Cambridge, where they can earn fame on the gridiron. They do / not care to be identified with Yale and Princeton. -- JOE VILA / in the _Evening Sun_.)

"Father," began the growing youth, / "Your pleading finds me deaf; / Although I know you speak the truth / About the course at Shef.

But think you that I have no pride, / To follow such a trail?

I cannot be identified / With Princeton or with Yale."

"Father," began another lad, / Emerging from his prep; / "I know you are a Princeton grad, / But the coaches have no pep.

But though the Princeton profs provide / Fine courses to inhale; / I cannot be identified / With Princeton or with Yale."

"I know," he said, "that Learning helps / A lot of growing chaps; / That Yale has William Lyon Phelps, / And Princeton Edward Capps.

But while, within the Football Guide, / The Haughton hosts prevail, / I cannot be identified / With Princeton or with Yale. "