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...recent relations between Harvard and Princeton have been marked by a plethora of heat and a paucity of light. The basis of friction between certain groups in both universities lies deeper than the two Princeton, game issues of the Lampoon. The Crimson editorial of yesterday should make this a it closed incident. Friends can afford to be frank, only hypocrites need resort to simulation. In a spirit of mutual respect and absolute candor let us examine the cause of this unfortunate illfeeling and assess it in its true light. I believe that the chief causes of the present situation...
Four Causes for Friction...
...Century. So many of them came and got rich that now the Germans control a major portion of the industry of Prague, though they number only about five per cent of its half million population. Remarked to my guide that such a situation must produce a good deal of friction between the Germans and the Czechs...
...Bingham and those who are working with him are trying to gain efficiency through directness of approach and through a reduction of friction. Taking duties certainly peculiarly fitted for those intimately connected with the work from those less well endowed cannot be considered as other than progressive. The tendency to allow a dubiously adequate system to exist usually betokens sluggishness or fear of novelty. That these who are at the center of Harvard athletic affairs are adjusting and making more effective their machinery is to be praised...
...thither on the Earth's surface had known of the event in advance and were watching what they call their "northwest" skies to see the meteors come whizzing into terrestrial atmosphere. The latter, being thicker than interstellar ether, caused the hurtling chunks of rock to become incandescent with friction. "Shooting stars," murmured lovers in the dark. "The tears of St. Lawrence," whispered the devout, for Aug. 10 is the anniversary of that saint's martyrdom.* In Manhattan and at Schenectady, certain earthlings, adept at communicating with one another by impulses sent out electrically on the ether that fills...