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...they accord with facts. And the trend during the past two decades at least has been in the opposite direction. There are signs that even crew, which, in the past, has relied more than other sports upon undergraduate direction, has been forced by the logic of the situation to adopt the efficient system of control and responsibility centered in the coach...
...speech he intimated that if the U. S. Government had seen fit to adopt the Fordney Tariff, there should be a similar tariff for the British Empire. Like General Smuts, Premier of the Union of South Africa, he called attention to the debt owed to the U. S. In 1922 imports from the U. S. were valued at ?222,000,000; exports to the U. S. at ?76,000,000. Premier Bruce thought it would be wise to make the British Isles less dependent on the U. S. and more dependent on the Dominions...
Such an attitude assumes that education is a matter of mass production with capacity limited only by the size of plant and the amount of capital and labor (in the form of teachers) available. But Harvard has not been founded on such a concept and cannot now adopt it if she is to held her position...
...years hence, when the present requirements in foreign languages begin to bear fruit, the usual breakfast dish will be "oeuf cocotte a la creme--coquettish eggs", as Mr. Britten reports it. Chicken hash will appear incognito as "hachis de voloille aux haricots verts" while a rib of veal will adopt the ambiguous disquise of "cootie de veaux," one of the "noisette" dishes. French, apparently, is the language of gastronomy, and there may yet appear in the catalogue of the French department "Gastronomy 5", the Appreciation of Menus...
...Professor Kirsopp Lake, in English 35a, a half course in the Old Testament. At the first meeting of his class yesterday he announced that, since he had found differences of opinion as to how much the final examination should count towards the grade for the course, he would adopt two systems of marking. In one, the final examination alone will determine the grade, and in the other the hour examination and the occasional quizzes will count heavily in the final reckoning. At the beginning of the course each student will be required to choose the system of marking he prefers...