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...announcement that fifty per cent of the undergraduate applications for the Yale game are to be reduced by lot, makes it difficult to restrain an outburst of honest wrath. Since words will not make more seats we are forced to be content in offering two suggestions to make the blow a little less intolerable...
...this has no application to the question, or it attempts to describe the persons who will examine our films,--the Commissioner, Governor, and Council and Courts. If it has any effect, it will bring the fundamental institutions of government into popular contempt. Could any anarchist strike a more nasty blow at the foundations of society...
Lamont and Byington, both handicapped by injuries received before and during the game, were not up to their usual form. The former was able to continue through the game but Byington had to give way to Pringle after a severe blow in the face. Dorman at the middle of the second half, sprained a ligament, and Greenidge, the University's clever fullback, fell on his wrist when attempting to intercept the ball, breaking both bones...
...illusions and delusions of myth and fable are being converted into the matter-of-fact of History. The "higher criticism" is taking the romance alike out of the Iliad and the Old Testament. Now yet another blow has been struck: "Old Noah He Did Build An Ark" thus runs the famous song: now it appears that he did nothing of the sort. Or rather, instead of being "an hundred cubits long and pitched within and without," it was solidly constructed of gigantic stone blocks; the completed edifice having four faces and four edges meeting in a point. In other words...
...French refusal to give any sanction to either reparations or armament reductions has been a serious blow to those optimistic of the results at Genoa. But Barthou has announced frankly and firmly that such proposals will not be even considered, inasmuch as France is perilously insecure in her position. Even the inclusion of those problems in the Russian proposals does not seem likely to shake her resolve...