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Many a time and oft in the Rialto and the Rivoli have we sat and wondered why the Pioneers of 47 and the Workshop had never been disputed in their dramatic sphere of influence in Cantabrigia. At last the money-changers of the Rialto are to come to our relief and change our dollar bills into half-dollars and rain-checks, and when the student of Philosophy is perplexed in the future with the problem "Why change your wife?" he can solve this problem without the help of any Widow, by sitting in at the Harvard Square student's latest...
...support of the oft recurring argument over the relative merits of western and eastern football, George Huff, athletic director at the University of Illinois, recently said to The Wake: 'I think the best eleven of the Big Ten for the last four or five years would have beaten the best eastern eleven. I do not mean decisively, but beaten it. By eastern eleven I also exclude those teams recruited by means no longer approved, but include Harvard, Yale, and Princeton...
Those who deplored the loss of the old courses and the letting down of the requirements that foreign literatures be studied will see in the new educational movement a vindication of their oft-expressed fears. But whether the fault be due to what they say it is or not, the colleges will do well to demand of those taking diplomas that they measure up to what the world expects of men and women who have had college opportunities...
...oft-repeated phrase be true, that the study of the past is undertaken chiefly to serve as a basis of a man's conduct in the future, it is only natural that we should turn at this time to the congress at Versailles and wonder if the delegates assembled there will utilize the lessons of similar gatherings in the past...
...other hand, the Germans' air raids are a mere exhibition of frightfulness, if they are simple gratifications to some disappointed group of officials, then there is hope that the shedding of German blood and suffering in a few German cities may bring them to their senses. Oft provoked and slow to anger have been the Allies, but now that all else has failed, we must support their stand, and hope that the old philosophy of an "eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" may yet save thousands of English and French non-combatants from death and mutilation...