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Although it is a bit early to make predictions as to the starting lineup which will answer the official whistle at 2 o'clock on Saturday, a probable choice began to shape up. In view of the changes which were made just prior to the Dartmouth game a week ago, anyone's guess is as good as another's when it comes to lining up the Crimson eleven...
...very slightly advanced English Composition courses the other day, the instructor was reading samples of excellent humorous writing. After finishing one choice bit, very short and exceptionally well done, he called for the opinion of the class. One young hopeful raised his hand...
...science and a defense of humanism. This portion of his article will provide abundant material for what in simpler circles than those of Harvard undergraduates are called "bull sessions." "For after all," he writes, "facts, especially scientific facts, are the most untruthful things there are." That is going a bit further than Kant, though like Kant, Mr. Chase does find truths at last in moral judgments. Lord Bacon went wrong because, though he had a scientific education, he had no moral education. It is difficult here to avoid making a debater's point, and suggesting to Mr. Chase that Alcibiades...
...Strauss in "Education and the Flesh" asks very reasonably, if a bit redundantly, for a Harvard that will train its sons to get out into a world full of Hitlers and Brain Trusters and run that world much better than these men are now running it. The central problem of his essay, which may be out roughly as that of "theory" and "practice," of "pure learning" and "applied learning," is, like those Mr. Chase treats, of perennial and inexhaustible interest, and if Mr. Strauss has not solved it (I expect he would hardly claim to have done...
...half-grown lion in the pants is bound to come in first eventually." And last year Roscoe Turner began "coming in first" until today he is the outstanding speed pilot of the U. S. His rivals sneer at his clothes, at his brash statements that he is "a bit of a hero to the boys of the country," at his public swagger, but there could be no sneering at the flying records that he has won in the stiffest competition. His speed racing began in earnest in 1930 when he first broke the East-West transcontinental record...