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...argument, and she writes with the vivacity and warmth of Irish blood reared "down South." None knows better than she the tragedy of good taste ruined by poor execution. She has labored over her execution until it is deft and capable except for the first-novelist's last fault, propping the characters up and making them expound the argument sometimes...
Going ahead logically to point out a remedy for each fault enumerated, Burrus makes the following suggestions as steps to cure the specific evils: (1) Replace Freshman and Sophomore gymnasium with two years of compulsory sports. (2) Limit intercollegiate competition to Juniors and Seniors or to Sophomores and Juniors. (3) Limit each sport to its season. (4) Limit daily practice for each sport. (5) Limit each student to participation in one intercollegiate sport, or prohibition of participation in successive sports. (6) Give students and faculty greater control of athletics...
This result reveals a weak spot in a judicial system which as a whole is it worthy of confidence and pride. We dare not rest until this vital fault is corrected...
American missionaries have testified in spite of the decision of the State Department that the American fatalities are not the fault of the Cantonese authorities, but that on the contrary the Cantonese have made every effort to prevent them. After all, when machine guns are in readiness at a Chicago election, it is not surprising that men caught in the midst of a Chinese civil war should run unpreventable danger. And yet it looks now as though thousands of our troops will risk their lives to revenge the deaths of hot over a dozen of their countrymen...
...situation at Nanking is admittedly serious. Americans who would have been herded out of the city three weeks ago but for the incompetence of the American authorities there have been caught in the street fighting between Nationalist advance guards and retiring Northerners. That it is the fault of U. S. authorities that they are so caught does not alter the apprehension felt for their safety. But they have not been massacred, General Chiang Kai Shek has promised to guarantee their safety, and according to late advices last night many of them had already reached places of refuge under the protection...