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...upon a single individual, a member of the board of editors. Obviously it would have been much fairer to seek and combine the opinions of several undergraduates, for it is not often that any two men regard a course in precisely the same light. If the CRIMSON desires to function as a mentor it should be able to provide something more dependable than the unsupported say-so of some individual editor who remains anonymous. To brand a course as worthless, or an instructor as incompetent, on the testimony of one student among several hundred is hardly in accord with...
Because of the impaired coordination of their nerves under pressure, the liability of their hearts to variation, and their general inclination toward giddiness, women seldom function as airplane pilots. Occasionally, in flying circus outfits, women have capitalized the fact that their sex is, in the air, a freak, and accepted large sums of money to perform comparatively safe flights. But never in the history of aeronautics, until last week, had a woman publicly announced that she would fly a speed plane in a great race. Miss Ruth Gillette of Los Angeles entered her Sikorsky Messenger...
...English team showed an informality of delivery which was quite foreign to the Americans, and a wit which crackled and sparkled to the discomfiture of the Americans. "In the Garden of Eden all animals were given tails, but men were left to form their own conclusions. Our chief function in coming to America is to forge one more link in the chain binding Harvard and Oxford together, but above all to convince the Harvard team of the error of its conclusions...
...species, of course, may be different at Union College; but elsewhere it is a pretty safe guess that the average run of legs and heads function as well as in the pre-Colgate era. If the two extremities of a student's anatomy be made the subject of presidential lecturing, the obvious criticism is not that students are being reduced to torsos, but that they run the danger of becoming either all heads or all legs...
Tomski. One of those for whom the waiter would not function was Comrade Tomski, loquacious Russian, who expressed gratitude to Britain for allowing him to stay "a whole 14 days in England." Mr. Tomski spoke for three hours in his native tongue. A translator informed the audience that Mr. Tomski had said that the Soviet had "relieved bankers of the burden of banks, land owners of the burden of land, and factory owners of the burden of conducting factories." In the middle of these proceedings the organist got the wrong cue and burst into The International. After Comrade Tomski...