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Professor Kittredge once said that he marvelled at the genius of the "skin-clad savage (name and date unknown) who first invented the fish-hook or the blow-gun or the fire-drill." It is possible that the genius of this ancient savage has been grossly under-rated. Heretofore scientists alone have examined the records of the rocks and runes. Why not turn loose upon these records devotees of electrical lore or send into the tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen those with a hobby for automobiles? Then, thanks to the hobby-horse, perhaps the world will learn that the Neolithic...
...Ship Subsidy has been done to death and the doing has dealt a death blow to President Harding's prestige. Yet nothing daunted, the President sent a message to the Senate at the tag-end of Saturday's session which should raise a new oratorical storm with the Bitter-End group as the storm-center. The message calls upon the Senate to endorse certain negotiations which have been in progress for a year, regarding participation by the United States in the Permanent Court of International Justice under the League of Nations. While avoiding an actual place in the League through...
...make demands instead of entreaties. Then, with Germany's growing defiance, the French were forced to apply greater pressure, military and economic. Cutting off the Ruhr coal supply from Germany proved insufficient. The embargo on all manufactured goods from the valley, especially iron and steel, is a more severe blow to the industrial and political life of Germany. As France continues to strengthen the barrier between Germany's productive district and the rest of, the states, the people will begin to feel the pinch and the Reich will awaken to the fact that the French are in a commanding position...
...pensive droop of their heads, by their strife to be polite to visitors despite the calamity, by the dim lights of the club, by the English tea, by the yearning of the club members fingers toward the breast pocket where the pencil lay, I realized that a great blow had been struck that day for the furtherance of Yale letters...
...hostility of the sporting writers is natural enough. The Presidents' agreement threatens their bread and butter because it is a blow at the growing commercialism and publicity of college athletics. Also, any rumored "split" between the so-called "Big Three" makes much better "copy" than any ungarnished summary of the athletic affairs of Harvard University...