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...weather conditions that have hampered all rowing this spring, Love is not pessimistic. But he does admit that the time trials to date are not as promising as those turned in at the same time last spring. However, he goes on to state that there is a keener spirit of competition between the first and second crews than was evident at any time last year. In fact, it is the second crew's persistence in beating the first boat that has necessitated a continued shifting of men from one boat to another in an attempt to find the fastest combination...
...much-distilled terms, the fond picture projected by the report is of a vastly more vigorous intra-mural sports program. Its scope is grander, the facilities are more equal to the demands, the coaching is better, the spirit of competition is keener, the participation is larger. The elusive fire-fly of "athletics for all" will for once be captured. There will be a decisive de-emphasis of sports if by emphasis is meant playing to win--for the old grads and the Sunday columnists. There will be new emphasis in the sense of athletics for sport and for physical gain...
...could be established a degree requirement of Knowledge of American Civilization--a requirement parallel to the present one in languages. This suggestion might be crucified by cries of Nationalism and Chauvinism, but it is obviously neither of these when considered as an attempt to provide college graduates with a keener appreciation of the contemporary American scene...
...keener interest to Washington was a one-man social performance put on between the Roosevelts' parties by Captain Anthony Eden of England. Continuing his "looking and learning" visit to the U. S. (TIME, Dec. 19), he went to Washington as an ordinary member of Parliament, but popular excitement could not have been greater had he still been Foreign Secretary. The press mobbed him at Union Station. Women workers at the State Department and White House left their desks and cubbyholes to gather in adulating clusters around...
...much of its almost vestal atmosphere, is the work of a dark-haired, dark-eyed pianist who took part in last Sunday's opener-Hortense Monath, 29. In her native Newark, N. J., Hortense Monath took slight interest in piano practice until she was twelve, was not much keener about it until, on her 16th birthday, she heard Schnabel play. Then, she says, "I grew up in one day." Schnabel, who had learned Latin from her father, took Pianist Monath as pupil, still coaches her although she made her Manhattan debut five years...