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...petition of the basketball teams, both University and Freshman, for a training table on the same basis as the major sports, was reluctantly refused, as the Committee did not consider it wise to establish the precedent of supporting training tables for minor sport teams...
...only question that now remains is whether the Irish can throw off their pugnacious habits and establish a smooth-running form of government. This might very well be possible were it not for one circumstance: DeValera and his discontents. The "President of the Irish Republic" has fought the treaty tooth and nail, and to all intents and purposes will continue to do so. Why he should feel the way he does is no great problem. He is first and foremost an egitator who lives on the troubles of others; to establish peace in Ireland would leave him, frankly...
...local Phi Beta Kappa award for preparatory schools, based on entrance examination records, is of twofold value: It stimulates interest toward higher scholastic standing; and rewards sound training in the school by helping to establish its reputation for teaching. Kent School, the winner this year, is to be congratulated...
...called primarily to limit naval armaments, and thereby to reduce the present burden of taxation. Any discussion of the Far Eastern question was to be relevant only in so far as it affected this problem. Many people felt, however, that the Conference was really called to end war and establish universal peace, and nothing which the President has said has been able to discourage this idea. The explanation of this attitude is twofold; first, blind sentimentalism; and second, the realization that the Conference must of necessity go farther than its specified limits. For it is obvious that naval reduction...
...days of the colony in search of freedom for his thought and teaching. He was not much over thirty when he died, leaving half his fortune and his whole library --of considerable size for those days--to be used by the college which the General Court was about to establish. His bequest was the chief support of the new college, which was accordingly given his name...