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...object of the dinner is to promote friendly relations between the rival staffs. Since the coaches never have a chance to get acquainted during games, this meeting will afford them an opportunity of meeting and discussing common problems. The officers of the Coaches Club are Eddle Farrell, Rene Percy, and Jack Carr...
...this spring," said Michael Karpovich, assistant professor of History, in an interview with the CRIMSON. "If there is a war, Japan, and not Russia, will start it, because the Russians realize that it would play havoc with their economic plans to get embroiled in a war. Russia can't afford to fight but Japan will force her to do so because she wants to safeguard her position in Manchuria. It is hard to tell what the objectives of such a struggle would be. Japan may be trying to set up a buffer state in Eastern Siberia. This would be difficult...
...advisory power, when labour ownership and control is the issue. But anyone who knows the history of the Labour Party in England and the Social Democrats in Germany will give very small odds that it can accomplish even these things, in the face of a capitalist emergency which cannot afford the concessions which it might have afforded in its healthier days...
...will be done away with. The receipts received from the observation trains, moreover, would in no way be affected by this change. It is to be sure, a change which will deprive spectators of approximately ten minutes of hilarity, but it is one which the Athletic Association can well afford to make at this time...
...literature is James Boswell's 143-year-old Life of Samuel Johnson. Greatly daring, Author Hugh Kingsmill has written his own version, and his audacity has been successful. Though not comparable to Boswell's book in size (249 pp. to 1,104 pp.) Samuel Johnson can well afford comparison in other ways. Boswell is often thought of as the man who knew Dr. Johnson best. But that is not so. Boswell was a first-hand reporter of only one period of Garrick's actresses excited his amorous propensities. Johnson's career-when he had already become...