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...American college debating has been for some years, by the confession of its own devotees, quite dour and dismal. Should it become now a laughing-stock? Harvard, Yale and Princeton have undertaken to move it in this direction. The crucial topic set for their latest triangular wrangling--"Resolved, that education is the curse of the present age" and they chose with chuckles aforethought. They expressly intended to give light discussion wide play in the ensuing debate, and so to invite the attendance of a larger audience, tempted by an opportunity not only to think but to smile...
...British move at Geneva appears to have been designed to bring all the Court members together for a general agreement, so that neither one nor another might throw a monkey wrench into the machinery for U. S. adherence...
...they applauded this unspectacular but well-advised move, Frenchmen remembered that Finance Minister Peret has served in various Ministries since that of Guerin in 1893. He served as President of the Chamber before the election of M. Herriot to that post. In consequence, he knows quite as well as anyone that in the present emergency the Finance Minister of France must attain his ends by cajoling the Deputies as if they were a pack of obstinate schoolboys...
Rigid curtailment of the forward pass as an offensive weapon came with the new ruling, passed on Saturday by the Intercollegiate Football Rules Committee at its meeting in New York. This move comes in answer to an increasing feeling that the pass has developed to a point where its use must be more strictly regulated. Minor rulings were also passed by the committee...
...place so long maintained by the followers of the Ibis. Indeed, the communication in this column is greatly at variance with the opinion of the CRIMSON in the matter. Though well able to cooperate with the Advocate in financing the bankrupt publication, the CRIMSON fears that any such move will but add to Lampie's already over heavy lead of debts. And it is against sound business principles to attempt the financially impossible. Yet there is no reason why some attempt should not made to restore to Harvard her fountain of folly. Therefore, any attempt to create a successor will...