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...Golf Champion: "From Harvard, where I am a student, I journeyed to Manhattan to attend the annual dinner of the U. S. Golf Association. As a guest of honor, I was given an ovation. I announced that I would be on hand next Summer at Oakland Hills, Calif., to defend my title...
...more than one sport have led to serious criticism on the part of graduates and of undergraduates of the way things were being carried on--criticism which has fallen in the last analysis on the shoulders of the Graduate Advisory Committees. It would be irrelevant at this time to defend or attack this criticism and the events which elicited it. But it is certain that the critics--and perhaps also, at times, the committees attacked and the Athletic Committee itself--have forgotten that after all the graduate Advisory Committees are merely representatives of the more powerful and more central University...
...points M. Poincaré's speech was almost defiant in tone. Said he: "If tomorrow we have to defend our security, we will not have to wait the good pleasure of any one. . . . Our security is above all assured by consolidation of the territories which we occupy. As long as Germany does not show herself pacific, we will remain on our guard. As long as the Treaty has not been entirely fulfilled, we will not abandon the left bank of the Rhine. . . . We would have liked to have had the conference of Ambassadors demand at once either extradition...
...foreign correspondents of American newspapers incompetent ? Ayes and nays ring out in united dissonance. Editor and Publisher, trade paper of newspaperdom, took an attitude which moved editors to defend their correspondents. Herbert Bayard Swope, Executive Editor of The New York World, led the editors, ejaculating: "One would think . . . that America lacked trained observers in Europe and elsewhere! Surely ... a false impression! All of the great American newspapers maintain groups of able correspondents abroad, who are thoroughly equipped to do the job, as best it can be done. . . . These writers are, primarily, collectors of facts. The interpretations placed upon their expositions...
...small college. For the Tufts team, coached by the All-Proficient Eddie Casey, will, in general, use the same "system" which the University uses. Coach Fisher's men will find themselves attempting to gain ground against a team employing their own defensive tactics, and, vice versa, will have to defend themselves against an attack on the same kind. That is true, in general...