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...weeks ago the police prevented a possible rict from taking place in City Square with only minor injuries a week ago the National Guard fired into a raging riot in Teoedo, causing two deaths. This is not an unfair comparison for often in this country police have been forced, sometimes justly and sometimes unjustly, to adopt such tactics in a crisis of this sort. From this angle, the immediate usage of methods which involve only slight brutality to stop these demonstrations is more sensible than waiting until drastic steps are necessitated...
Lovely, Husky-voiced Margaret Sullavan, who despite all the superlatives that have been heaped on her bids fair to outshine la Hepburn, gives a charming impersonation of Lammchen, the devoted young wife of Hans Pinneberg, played by Douglass Montgomery. Mr. Montgomery suffers considerably by comparison, the best that can be said of him is that he is very earnest and sincere. The plot has to do with the vicissitudes in the life of this unassuming couple trying to live a peaceful existence. Lammchen is to have a baby, Hans loses his jobs through no particular fault...
Both teams have won three games this year and lost two, giving each a League-heading average of .600, although the Crimson also has to its credit a tie with Princeton. As far as any comparison is possible it looks as if the Mitchellmen's .273 batting average, compared with Pennsylvania's .220, will give them the jump at the plate, while the Quakers' crack fielding is going to make scratch hits and bases on errors as scarce as the well known hen's teeth on a duck farm...
Kenneth J. Conant, '15, associate professor of Architecture, is represented by original drawings made for Harvard plates, and by one of the completed plates, for comparison. Harold B. Warren, former instructor, shows four water colors, landscapes of the Cape, the Alps, Sicily, and the vicinity of Florence. H. Dudley Murphy, instructor, has several oils, two portraits, a flower piece, and a Mexican landscape...
...with the responsibility for the destinies of our peoples, you know that to give up the enterprise of disarmament and the organization of peace, would not mean an end to your troubles. You know that if we closed down tomorrow you would all go home to face difficulties in comparison with which the troubles with which you are now wrestling would seem insignificant...