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...easiest solution would seem to be to bring intercollegiate minor sports back to a sane intramural basis. Too often in the past years has the game been confused with the trophy on the watch chain, or the letter on the chest. Now perhaps is the best time to come back to earth and realize that perhaps sport for its own sake is not an idle dictum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLUE JAYVEES | 5/11/1934 | See Source »

...student who can't make up his mind on the question of what subject he is interested in, Anthropology 1 offers the easiest escape. For the subject matter of anthropology is as encompassing as the title is long and there are no restrictions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Publishes Confidential Guide Preparatory to Filing of Study Cards | 4/18/1934 | See Source »

...helplessness of large armies. . . . It is doubtful whether the armies would ever come to the point of sighting each other. "Most likely air forces will strike in the first hour of the next war before mobilization has begun. . . . The intricate mobilization machinery of the modern horde army is the easiest thing in the world to throw out of gear. The centralization of water, light, heat and power supplies all make dislocation easier and paralysis more certain." Scarcely had these gentlemen spoken before the Austrian riots wrote finis to Great Britain's attempts at reaching immediate disarmament agreements. Rendered particularly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: War Worries | 2/19/1934 | See Source »

...made in the first year, before it is possible for the student to have formed a competent basis for judgment. An excellent tutor in Mathematics is of little avail to a man whose interest is primarily in Biology or English, concentrating in Mathematics because Math A was his easiest course during his Freshman year. When the problem of the "uninterested tutee" is one of the chief obstacles to the success of the tutorial system, it is pennywise and pound-foolish to lavish large sums on tutorial work in the last three years while grudging the comparatively small amount necessary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN ADVISERS | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

Observers agreed that, should Chancellor Hitler decide to pick a war tomorrow, fat little Denmark, a land of farmers as defenseless as their cows, would offer the easiest prize, especially since North Slesvig is swarming with Danish Nazis financed from Berlin. But the main danger was not last week that Germans may be so foolish as to start any kind of war in 1933. The longer Adolf Hitler waits, the keener his Reichswehr and Storm Troops become, the more arms the Fatherland secretly or openly acquires, the greater will be Germany's chance to strike with success. The danger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Preventative War? | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

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