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...study of school children's textbooks. Next he held five public hearings at which two out of twenty-four persons defended the books in question. Mr. Hirshfield then investigated the activities of countless questionable organizations like the Carnegie Foundation and the Rhodes Scholarship Association, where each discovery made the problem more serious. Confirmed as may have been his suspicions, however, his worst fears were not realized until he saw the real enormity of the pro-British propaganda exposed in a series of discerning articles in the Hearst papers...
While Yale, for the present at least, has set a limit to the size of the entering class, at 850 men, Harvard has not placed a definite restriction on numbers. It is evident, nevertheless, that she is meeting the same problem in a not so very different way. Yale, having set a certain number as the maximum, can choose from among the best candidates. Harvard, apparently, will set standards which will prevent more than the desired number from entering and thus be assured also of a high type of undergraduates. There is a difference of method...
...Communist strike in the Ruhr, which has reached serious dimensions, a discord developing between France and Belgium over the lines upon which the next note will be sent to Germany after the expected note from Berlin, and the German political situation are the principal factors affecting the Ruhr problem...
...task of developing a crew which could row his stroke effectively, Coach Muller's position has been unusually difficult. Starting out in the autumn with a mass of material at his disposal, he was faced with the problem of teaching his own methods to a group of men who, for the most part, had previously been drilled in at least two different systems of rowing, Coach Muller has had less than nine months in which to alter radically the rowing of every man on the squad...
...zealous prohibitionists have claimed of this repeal. In fact the bold note which be struck in his special message is evidence that legal considerations, once cleared up, had no further influence upon his decision. What did influence his decision in the light of the decision, becomes almost a metaphysical problem...