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...step. American troops have been on the border all that length of time, even when they were badly needed in France. Mexico has been a thorn not only in our side, but in that of Europe as well. The latter will soon reach the limit of their patience. Our much-touted Monroe Doctrine is going to be an embarrassment to any administration we may elect. Euro-pen countries, with vast war debts to pay off and rich consecrations is Mexico are likely to suggest that they go in and make that turbulent nation safe for their investments. The Monroe Doctrine...
Some changes in the coaching staff will be devised for next fall. One of these will probably be the addition of a quarterback mentor as hitherto there has been no resident quarterback coach on the Yale staff, and to this lack is assigned the cause of much of the unfinished work of Kempton, La Roche and Neville...
...question of rendering him the honor that is his due. Indeed, I'm not so sure as to how much comfort Alexander-wherever he now may be-is taking in the thought that, 2242 years after his early demise at Babylon, lots and lots of people on this little pin-head in the cosmos still persist in calling him "the Great." The real point is this, that Whitney's career as a man "who did things" is still a lesson, an example, an inspiration, for the young American of today...
Experiments in catapaulting the present type of machine, dependent for a start upon the swift passage of air over lift-creating planes, have increased the general interest in the possible development of the helicopter. In these experiments the machine is shot off a starting platform, much as a dart is thrown in the air. The start is so swift that the machine is able to pick up its flying speed and continue flight with its own engine...
...uneducated child in one hundred and fifty thousand is able to accomplish anything that entitles him to honorable mention in the progress of his state; that children with common-school education win out four times as often; that a high school diploma gives them eighty-seven times as much chance--while a college education makes them eight hundred times as likely to succeed. But the fact that such incidents as the above do still happen should be sufficient to make us more guarded against assuming any over-confidence. Success is by no means guaranteed by education. What has been said...