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Slang is at best a temporary relief from the rigor of correct expression, but in a college of liberal arts its continued use is pitifully futile. Profanity is neither more nor less than absence of self-control, and in a community of supposedly maturing men such immaturity is really a matter of shame...
...follows, therefore, that American sentiment is correct in so far as it assumes that the Conference cannot stop half way: that is, the mere limitation of navies. In view of the general opinion of France as expressed in the above quotation, it seems logical that if navies are very much reduced some association for defense must be established among the powers. Such an association is nothing but Article X in the Covenant of the League of Nations; the proposal of the "Temps" is also identical with it. Where American opinion goes astray is in its failure to perceive that, since...
This evening at 8.15 o'clock on the main floor of the Hemenway Gymnasium, Coach Wachter will stage an exhibition game between two teams of his first squad to show the correct interpretation of the revised basketball rules for 1921-22. Since the success of basketball depends upon a thorough knowledge of the regulations on the part of all the players, the basketball management hopes that every one who is intending to play this year will be present at the game. Mr. Oswald Towers of the Rules Committee will be on hand to answer questions; Coach Wachter will demonstrate...
...Kawa", a screaming burlesque on South Sea expeditions such as he writes of seriously, and in his story of the time when, as an aviator, he bombed a farmhouse full of German soldiers though aiming at a troop train, and upon his return he did not trouble to correct the French soldiers who complimented him on his fine shot...
...Yale offence is powerful and scientifically correct--built about Captain Aldrich and O'Hearn, two of the best running and passing backs in the East this year...