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...back on abuses which have occasioned this solidarity, has not helped the situation. Both are like blind men, thinking they perceive an enemy and thrashing about wildly in mutually destructive combat. Only when the energy thus wasted can be turned to a sane recognition of true facts, can we avoid revolution and attack the abuses which obstruct the road to progress...
...order to avoid any misunderstanding, the announcement is made that men who usher at the Yale game will in all cases receive the full number of tickets for which they have applied. The rule regarding personal occupancy of seats will, of course, be inoperative in the case of ushers. Any man in the University is entitled to apply for an ushership, which entails free admission to the game. More men are needed and application may be made before Wednesday of this week at Leavitt & Peirce's, the H. A. A., or the Phillips Brooks House. The full list of ushers...
...novelist began by emphatically vetoing the prevalent idea that the traditional advice of literary men to ambitious writers is to avoid such a career. "If you wish to write, do so," he said. "If you fail you will soon find out, and in all events you will enjoy yourself...
After playing Cornell today the team will immediately board a train for Princeton, where they will arrive tomorrow morning. They will meet the Tiger soccer players in the forenoon to avoid conflict with the football game...
...problem seems to be, how to have a professional military, without incurring the odium attached to it. It certainly is a big problem and it certainly is a big problem and it certainly is an enormous odium. Even a professional soldier wishes to avoid the odium of militarism, and so our army is to be that fine institution, a school! This certainly is a notable transformation...