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...British Government's plan to help India in preparing for full dominion home-rule, with moving people by Western catchwords, with committing a great crime against their fellow-countrymen and civilization. He refused to believe that Britain would leave 300,000,000 people of India to their fate in the hands of irresponsible agitators. He was of the opinion that the gradual extension of constitutional power in that country was the only policy that Britain could follow. Such a speech, from so temperate a man as Balfour, who rarely has mixed in Indian affairs, was said to have profoundly...
...carried along willy-nilly, as in the American college, over a certain number of hazards and hurdles. But education can never be other than a problem for each individual student. The immediate question which it is necessary to answer, is shall he decide his own fate and profit according to his own inclination and ability or shall he be standardized and machine-handled like each of his fellows, entirely regardless of his own individual capacity...
Upon first consideration the plan suggested by Director Blossom of Yale for an intercollegiate baseball league is appealing, but Major Moore's vigorous denial of the rumor that Harvard would enter such a league is based upon more than a recollection of the unfortunate fate of such an association in 1887. The problem of the increased expense involved in organization of schedules under an intercollegiate league could perhaps be met by raising the price of tickets, which would in turn probably necessitate a discarding of the present plan of admission to games on Soldiers Field by H. A. A. books...
...only remaining seeded player in the University squash tournament, G. B. Debevoise '26, followed the fate of his erstwhile colleagues when he was defeated yesterday in the semi-finals by J. D. Du Bois '24, by the score...
...composer (Roland Young) fancies himself actually shackled to the family. He is forced to devote his talents to frenziedly manufacturing widgets-whatever they are. The natural result is that he slays them all in disgust. Follows a great lark of a trial, wherein a jury of critics decides his fate according to the worth of his symphony and pantomime. Escaping from the dream with a whole skin, the composer wins the sensible girl across the hall and plans to live in a cottage...