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...advisable to hold the races before June 15, until which time the river's tidal conditions are unfavorable; 2) the spectators' observation cars have been dismantled; 3) most of the competing crews row on dead water, and their athletic associations, deprived of observation-car revenue, want to avoid the expense of the ten days' training necessary to acquaint their oarsmen with the Hudson's tricky currents...
...remains the only mode of life and the only mechanism of society sufficiently broad as far as its philosophical basis is concerned, and sufficiently vague as to its outlines, to encompass a vast number of contradictions." He feels that "democracy is the only form of Government . . . strong enough . . . to avoid the 'grim horrors of revolution...
...Forum is to fulfill its considerable promise, the quality of speakers must be kept consistently high. Vigorous student participation must prevent it from beginning the happy hunting grounds of any group or point of view. Political decisions are now a matter of life and death; students can no longer avoid them...
Four sub-committees make up the organization proper: Social Service, Intellectual, Donations, and Emergency and Personnel. These groups will meet frequently to avoid duplication of efforts and to cooperate with such outside groups as the U.S.O., the Red Cross, and the Army morale division...
Army & Navy procurement officers, not wanting to take the zip out of production, are almost as opposed to a statutory limit on war profits as businessmen are. Businessmen, not wanting to be unpopular or unpatriotic, are almost as eager to avoid excessive war profits as Congressmen are. So last week, while Congressmen reconsidered a bill to limit all war-contract profits to 10% or less, the Army & Navy quietly perfected a technique of profit control that businessmen could understand...