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...changed, due to the unexpected resignation of the Dartmouth coach. As now arranged, one team representing the University will make the trip to Hanover while one Green team will match wits with the Crimson debaters in Cambridge. The question as tentatively framed reads: "Resolved, That the U. S. should adopt the Plumb plan for the operation of the railroads, the constitutionality granted...
...position of our committee is that taken by General Ian Smuts, member of the British Peace Commission at Paris and Prime Minister of the South African Republic, in his farewell address to the British people; 'Leave Russia alone, remove the blockade, adopt a policy of Gallio-like impartiality to all factions.' This is exactly where we stand; we believe that the only part we should take in Russia's affairs is relief work, such as Mr. Hoover did in Belgium...
...This second system having failed egregiously in 1914, it is proposed to have nations maintain minimum armies and co-operate to resist aggression. A large body of American opinion however feels, as does the Editor of the CRIMSON, that, while the rest of the world should be encouraged to adopt the third system, America should revert to the first. The more fashionable way of working for this end is to talk with General Pershing and Colonel Goetz of citizenship and illiteracy; the frankness of the CRIMSON is more desirable but less tactful. SYDNEY FAIRBANKS...
...better, let the change be made; if a system of having candidates named and seconded in primaries, thinned out by direct voting on the convention ballot, and four or five successful names placed on the final, ballot, would prevent such a shameful showing as on Tuesday, let us adopt that system. But whatever the means, let us take steps to put an end to the alarming indifference exhibited in the recent elections...
...Blue Hill Observatory, together with the Blue Hill Observatory, would maintain the same spirit of helpful service in the future that it has in the past during the incumbency of Professor Pickering, whose motto was "There are no secrets in science," and who states that any institution might adopt their methods or any persons have their results...