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Already the Firestones have been working their plantation for over a year under a tentative agreement (TIME, Oct. 26, 1925) with the Liberian Government. Young Harvey Firestone Jr. (Princeton '20) has largely engineered the groundwork of this vast project. Recently he surveyed the Philippines for further rubber possibilities, told President Coolidge at White Pine Camp (TIME, Aug. 16) that "in 15 years the United States could become independent of the British Rubber monopoly" if Philippine land laws are modified to encourage U. S. investments there...
...addition to the Choral Society and the Glee Club, both the soloists, Miss Ethel Hayden, soprano, and Mr. Boris Saslawsky, baritone, sang very well, Miss Hayden particularly carrying the melody with the utmost clarity above the groundwork of the choruses...
Disarmament. Pursuant to a resolution passed by the Assembly of the League of Nations (TIME, Oct. 5), the Council proceeded to take cognizance of the work of the subcommittees which have been preparing the earliest groundwork for a League Disarmament Conference, and began to deliberate upon what further preliminary steps should be taken...
...charge of the practice in general, and for today's work at least, will be aided by three former Crimson stars, specialists in various phases of the ice game. Joshep Stubbs '20, will be in charge of the defense, and is expected to teach new men the groundwork of the famous Winsor system. Stubbs has played both for the Boston Athletic Association and the Boston Hockey Club teams, and is considered one of the best defense strategists in the game...
...reduction of course requirements to ten or twelve is wholly advisable. For the first two years the present schedule of four courses might well be continued; the elements of any new study can be handled very satisfactorily in the present lecture introductory courses. But after the groundwork has been laid, the task of guiding growing intellectual interest can be safely entrusted to the tutorial system, as present facts tend to demonstrate. To require more than two courses each, in addition to tutorial work during the Junior and Senior years is, then, to impose the present undue demands upon student energy...