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...reasonably at such a possibility." Although enrollment is restricted, the clubs cannot stand still. The competition is there and the pace is stiff. The underlying spirit of loyalty to the cub system is all right, but there is no special sanctity attached to the form. The clubs might well abandon their defensive attitude and give thougt to the course of future development. There are no panaceas for the club problem, but there are great possibilities in intelligent direction of evolution. The Princeton Alumni Weekly...
...tutor are without doubt great, and honor would be presumed, on the basis of past accomplishment, to be won during them for the University. But if the tutorial system is to continue serving alike the dropped Freshman and the first group Sophomore, it seems clear that it should not abandon the academically lesser of these, nor the many who have by varying margins escaped his fate, in their time of most need...
...concluded: "For the future there are only two possibilities. Either we pursue our revolutionary policy in organizing the proletarians suppressed in all countries around the working class of the Soviet Union-in this case international capital will attempt to prevent our promotion by all means-or we abandon our revolutionary policy and make a number of concessions to international capital. In the latter case international capital possibly would be willing to assist us to degenerate our Socialist State into a bourgeois republic...
Briefly, the Prime Minister announced that on Nov. 1, 1928, the Empire will abandon its six-year-old program of attempting to force up the world price of rubber by curtailing the supply. This program, the so-called Stevenson Plan, went into effect in 1922, when crude rubber stood at 17? a pound, and bounced the price up within three years to $1.21. That meant bonanza profits for British plantations. Why then is the Stevenson Plan about to be scrapped...
Only at a few selected seasons, such as Christmas and Eastertide, does Signor Benito Mussolini abandon his august bachelor existence at Rome and journey to Milan, there to live for a few days with his totally self-effacing consort Donna Rachele Mussolini...