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...Abandon New Game...
...giving up practice on the small field under the Stadium stands, the squad will have to definitely abandon Major Moore's passing game which has furnished the greater part of its work to date. The goal posts on the Freshman field have been removed because of its former use by the 1928 baseball squad and even if they were put up the amount of space would be too large to make the novel passing game practicable. The canvass targets will be left on their present posts in case any of the men want to play the game before or after...
...this ceremony, Mrs. Curtis D. Wilbur will leave her pots and pans* will abandon her clothes line, will travel (presumably in a parlor-car), will provide herself with a champagne-model gingerbeer bottle, will crack it upon the very front and prow of the unfinished hulk...
Weight. At the other end of the string, was a German offer to guarantee the Rhine frontier against aggression in a treaty between Britain, France, Belgium, Italy, Germany (TIME, Mar. 16). The offer tacitly agreed to abandon any claim to Alsace and Lorraine, and was in the nature of a frank recognition of the status quo. The Eastern frontier (i.e., the German-Polish-Czecho-Slovakian boundary) was specifically left for final settlement through arbitration...
...experiment. Doubtless the same, only to a larger degree, would hold true of purely undergraduate efforts. The foreign plays which the Dramatic Club has hitherto produced have been well past the testing stage--have been the work of playwrights whose creative powers have reached a dramatic maturity. To abandon the latter seems regrettable. But disregarding the mooted wisdom of the decision, the Dramatic Club is to he commended for its honest effort to meet the needs of the present situation, instead of adding to the crowded files of ineffectual protest...