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Next day Britain quietly lined up with France. At the Foreign Office, abashed Italian newshawks were told by suave minions of not-so-suave British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon that "Premier Mussolini, it is hoped and believed, will abandon this project, with the result that the proposed Italo-Albanian customs union will die a speedy death...
...concentrators that still retains the older methods, and its work is done so much in laboratories that its position is peculiar. The only change in the system has come from a demand by the students themselves. There has been no desire on the part of the University to abandon teaching or examination in courses by copying the practice at Oxford and Cambridge of leaving instruction wholly to the tutor, as that would have seemed ill-adapted to the habits of the College...
...that the function of athletic authorities is not to score diplomatic "points" nor to outwit rival authorities by subtle negotiation, but rather to arrange contests which as nearly as possible reflect the undergraduate sentiment in the institutions involved. Apparently Harvard and Princeton officials have decided in this instance to abandon the first theory in favor of the second and sounder...
...Freshman and the 150 pound crews. A mile and a half in length this begins just below the Cottage Farm Fridge and runs downstream along the Cambridge side of the river to a point parallel with the M.I.T. gymnasium. Coach Charles Whiteside has not definitely concluded to abandon the old course entirely but at least the men one will be of real value in conditioning the Varsity for the four mile Yale classic at New London on June...
...position. The General Council of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. revealed that, meeting in Chicago three weeks ago, it had unanimously pronounced the report "virtually a denial of evangelical Christianity." The Presbyterian Church would, of course, sympathetically consider every "forward-looking policy" but never would it "abandon the New Testament position and surrender the only hope the world has of overcoming the insidious atheism and agnosticism of our generation." Another Presbyterian objection: "We confidently expected that an increase in missionary enthusiasm would result from the Commission's Report, but fear that at least in some quarters...