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Britons reflected that the newly chosen Viceroy, although a Conservative, is known to have a Liberal bent. Eton, Christ Church and the traditional round of aristocratic preferment have smoothed his path. As Under Secretary for the Colonies under Mr. Lloyd George; as British representative on the Council of the League of Nations in 1923; and as Minister of Agriculture in the present Cabinet, he has had wide experience in states-craft if not a scintillant career. In India his experience and his aristocratic background will well become the Viceregal Lodge at Delhi. Meanwhile historians turned, to contemplate the retiring Viceroy...
Wildly enthusiastic, his hearers were with difficulty persuaded to clear the dictator's path to the great Scala Opera House nearby, where he was scheduled to deliver a formal address. Gaining the platform at last, he cried...
...cars were counted at this point, and in the afternoon 1550 passed. These large numbers, according to the committee, which is composed of Professor H. V. Hubbard '97 and C. W. Eliot 2nd '20, emphasize the need of remedying the present situation that is making the pedestrian's path between the Yard and the New Lecture Hall more and more dangerous...
...Sportsmanship offered them a dubious chance. They took it, struck in their spurs, and dashed straight down the ties toward the culvert's end while the train with brakes screaming, rushed up behind them, closer, closer and then -just as the last cropped tail twitched out of its path-roared...
...hard-headedness, has yet to go the whole hog. He is still dealing in half measures. The desperate resolve of the football authorities at Harvard to perfect their team by putting electric lights on the field ought to spur the alumnus to equally rigorous action. His path is clear: football must be rescued from the paralyzing limbo between amateurishness and professionalism. Much as he might sigh for the old days, it is obviously, too late to regain for the game a lost amateur standing. The present status is impossible. Onward, then to a business basis. The players must of course...