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...definite first combination has yet been formed. The greatest problem facing Coach Claflin is that of a goal guard with J. G. Flint '23, Chandler Bigelow '24 and Malcolm Dole '24 as the three most likely candidates...
...avalanche of disaster, so it has seemed with Ireland. As an historian said of the British Isles in the thirteenth century "Wales was conquered, Scotland unconquered, Ireland half-conquered". With the anomalous situation growing out of this half conquest it is safe to say that the Irish problem began, and like the play it has become, through differences of temperament, recrimination, abuse of power; muddy thinking, stubbornness and sentimentalism more and more complex, increasingly confused. "At length, on December 4, 1922," says the chronicler, "Parliament passed the Irish Constitution Bill, and with a sigh of relief men closed that volume...
...part of men seeking their rights will not bring forth results, but the spirit behind it will find some more effectual means and inevitably triumph. There is little about these grim miners that can be called ethical, but they are full of a practical reality. Some solution to this problem must be found--a problem now pressing in every corner of the nation, and seen in its most violent form in West Virginia. Some process of law must be devised whereby there may be an amicable settlement between capital and labor. There must be more of a spirit of tolerance...
...possible to get the ideas even of a Norwegian as soon as he thinks them; and we can carry goods from one part of the country to another by air at the rate of 225 miles an hour. We are faced by the reverse of the problem confronting us before. Whereas society was once handicapped by lack of transportation, it may now suffer from too much of it. Formerly there was at least time to think, a pause to find the truth between two falsehoods. Now we are hurried along by the pressure of the inventions for communication until there...
...dueling swords team is not so satisfactorily situated, since this department of fencing requires far more experience and training than work with the foils. Shearn and Watson are at present the only men with any degree of skill with the swords, so that Coach Danguy's gravest problem is to develop more men for this team. After the Christmas recess the swordsmen will hold part time practice with the Boston Athletic Association squad, but the foilsmen will work only at the Hemenway Gymnasium...