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...color makes for tolerance and understanding. Extremism and the black-and-white world of the political slogan are reduced to a happy minimum. National as well as international issues nowadays are as involved as an Italian spaghetti and have to be elaborately unravelled before they can be understood. This function is admirably served by the Political Union, not only because it gives voice to all attitudes in fair and unemotional debate, but also because it has the ear of a sympathetic student public...
...over the Yard leaving broken posters, crumpled pamphlets, hoarse throats, and shreds of torn hair in its wake. No one argues that student organizations should not maintain an independent existence, yet every reason pleads that some place be offered where they can meet in friendly, democratic debate. Democracy cannot function without full interchange of thoughts, and democracy today at Harvard is being smoked out in the class--not of ideas--but of pressures...
...undergraduate athletic committee will be set up, consisting of the captains of the major and minor sports. Their function will include the running of the various social activities of the Club, investigation into athletic affairs which may be necessary from time to time, ensuring that the working athlete has a decent job and is getting three square meals a day, and acting more or less as a Student Council for sports...
...succeed in building 2,100,000 tons this year-probably the maximum, this would mean a net loss of nearly 3,000,000 tons -or about 23% of the 13,000,000-ton fleet now supplying Britain. It would reduce the effective tonnage of ships engaged in that essential function to little more than 3,000,000 tons. At this rate the British would not be licking the problem ; it would be licking them...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is Pancho Lopez (Wallace Beery), a rootin'-tootin' Mexican bandit, a dead ringer for Pancho Villa, whom Actor Beery portrayed with the same mops and mows back in 1934. Nothing like Holbrook Blinn's stage Pancho of 21 years ago, whose function was to satirize the average American, is the Beery portrait. The Arizona ranch which Pancho raids is owned by a gruff old character in a wheel chair (Lionel Barrymore). Both dialogue and action are thus resolved into a prolonged contest between the stallion snorts of Actor Beery and the crosspatch snuffles...