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...should quibble more precisely over the word "unfortunate"--which he applies to the tendency of Jews to intermarry. It depends more entirely upon what Dr. Eliot holds to be "fortunate." If two people--I choose not to use the word "race"--are so entirely divergent that there is small likelihood that they live harmoniously upon the same planet, I say it would be most "fortunate" that by fusion of the two one be obliterated, even though one strain be prepotent...
...offense is the big Crimson problem. The best defense in the world cannot assure anything better than a tie. If Harvard is to beat Yale, it must show infinitely more offensive power than it has so far this season. With Gehrke and Miller once more in the backfield, the likelihood of a renovated offense increases a hundred fold...
...afternoon, when the will was filed in the Suffolk Probate office yesterday. Mr. Roland Gray '95 was appointed executor. No definite information has been released as to the probable amount of the bequest, but it was understood last night from reliable sources that the sum involved will in all likelihood reach the hundreds of thousands...
...down "in roughly the order of their likelihood," four states that he felt were "in some degree fighting ground" but normally Republican...
...abolition of the House of Lords. The "Shadow Cabinet" (Conservative) of ex-Premier Stanley Baldwin discussed this phase for a whole night, last week, without coming to any decision. It was believed in Whitehall that the Conservatives would be permitted to vote independently, which case there would be some likelihood of the measure passing the Lords...