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University crew demanded an outlay of $13,037,52, and the receipts reached only $5358, a deficit of more than 7000 showing. To maintain the hockey team $1042.04 was expended, and the University track team wants were heeded to the extent of $5143.25. The receipts respectively for hockey and track were $378.34 and $737.45. The deficit in the group of five major sports totalled...
...College one is too likely to skim over surfaces, entirely neglecting the really important things which lie beneath. The student finds himself confronted with a maelstrom of ideas out of which it is hard for him to separate the wheat from the chaff. He finds it hard to maintain his convictions when such excellent arguments confront him on the other side...
...disappoint, but none of us can make such a statement. We vary in our opinions from those who believe the work the Soviets are doing in Russia is at least an improvement over the age-long terrorism of the Czar to those who condemn it. None of us maintain that the program and methods of Lenine and Trotzky are "Applicable to the traditions, institutions and aims of this country." Some of us do fear lest the suppression in America of free speech and check of the revolutionary growth of industrial democracy, if continued, may lead to the same pitiful misery...
...standards. But it was not pre pared for what followed. Some of the spectators remembered that, before the war, plays by Holberg and similar authors were given frequently in Germany with great success. And they wondered what the H. D. C. would do with "Erasmus Montanus". How would it maintain the spirit of the 18th century and yet bring such a play home to the sensibilities of a present-day audience...
...many which will be necessary in order to carry the treaty once more before the Senate is a compromise relative to the fight over Article X of the Covenant. As stated therein, the United States, together with the other countries of the League, assume an obligation to maintain the territorial integrity of any country in the League. But action by the United States toward this end is in every case left to a decision of Congress as to what form our action shall take. Now, the stand taken by Senator Lodge on this matter is that, if the United States...