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France thought and continues to think otherwise. She does not trust Germany. She holds that Germany will avoid all obligations she is not actually compelled to meet. Whether the French interpre- tation of the German attitude be right or wrong, French action based on that interpretation has had unfortunate results. In the first place, it has made a fair test of Germany's willingness and ability to pay impossible. In the second place, reparations problems have become inextricably confused with political and military problems and purposes...
...easy workout, for the purpose of limbering up. This light work will continue for a period of three weeks until the candidates for the other positions are called out. Coach Slattery stated that there would be no curve-ball pitching for at least three weeks, in order to avoid the danger of sore arms...
...coastwise shipping, particularly Pacific, Atlantic, transportation by way of Panama, that a second canal connecting the two oceans was seriously discussed in a Cabinet meeting few days ago. With Panama traffic quadruped since 1914 and the fruit growers of the West turning more and more to the sea to avoid the prohibitive price required to pay the overland carriers, experts forecast that the locks of Gatun and Miraflores will be used to the limit of their capacities within the fifteen years necessary to complete a second passageway...
...current number of the Advocate to overcome undergraduate academic inertia by raising the scholastic standard in the College, comes at a time when thoughtful constructive criticism is badly needed. American university education is going through a critical period and here at Harvard, in particular careful handling is necessary to avoid on one side the danger of "swamping" from overcrowding,--and on the other the menace of overpaternalism. The College cannot afford to become merely a pleasant place to spend four effortless years nor can it restrict itself to the requirements of an overgrown high school...
...cannot end this report without comment on the Yale-Harvard football game of 1922. We call a game of football clean when the participants avoid dirty play. If in the violence of the contest, one or two men lose for a moment their self-control. We are inclined to forgive them. At some games we wonder that, in a fierce physical encounter, our hot-blooded youth can be trained to keep their tempers as well as they do. The game of 1922 combined the intensity of football with the chivalry of tennis. Cheer leaders, bands, coaches, players vied with...