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...more powerful Cambridge sweep-swingers pulled alongside, passed at the mile. Wide open water separated them after two miles, and Cambridge, sure of victory, insolently slowed down. The little Oxford coxswain signaled for more speed. Up went the beat, but his men, badly fagged, could not close the gap, At three miles, Cambridge was three lengths ahead. In nearby London suburbs the chimney pots shook from the cheering, as Cambridge swept over the line in record time, 18 min. 3 sec., a full four lengths ahead, their 45th win against Oxford...
...upon party pyramids, has made it necessary for the college graduate to waste his most valuable years in routine party boot-licking, a task sufficiently unpleasant to drive any thoughts of a public career from the minds of many talented young men. This new fellowship proposes to bridge the gap between study and political activity by enabling the student to gain practical experience and the all-important contacts while he is still in graduate school. It is most certainly a beneficial move, but it can affect only a very small number and it leaves the majority of embryo statesmen...
...February riots have not appeased the populace on the specific issue of the day, the Stavisky burglary; and the turn of international affairs has convinced the vast indefinite body of patriots that France has quite noticeably lost prestige on the Continent. Papa, Doumergue's government is a stop-gap which can satisfy no one for very long: this poker-playing parliamentarian is plainly not cut out for the Strong Man which events both foreign and domestic foreshadow. The dizzy succession of cabinets has played into the hands of the fascist element, and the Royalists have contributed their little...
...announcement of the Government Department's new non-credit courses marks an important development of the present educational trend from note-talking to tutorial discussion. The gap between the tutor and the classes of his tutee has been inevitably wide in the past, and these lectures, dealing with broad topics, knitting together many aspects of the field, may supply the necessary coherence...
...Cunningham and passed him. Half a lap before the end of the race, Cunningham repassed Venzke. Bonthron started his sprint coming around the last turn. He passed Venzke on the outside and started down the straightaway toward the tape, four yards behind Cunningham. Thirty yards from the tape, the gap began to melt. The finish duplicated the finish of the first race, except that the judges decided that this time not Bonthron but Cunningham was inches in front. Venzke again was a stride behind. The time (3:52.3) was a new indoor record...