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...Freshman squash tournament squash tournament is now in progress on Freshman courts and on Monday. Coach Cowles will choose eight men as the nucleus of the Freshman squash team...
...Dancers. The progress of the two women chiefly concerned herein is much like that of a mountain cable railway. One starts at the peak and slips downward; along the adjoining track the other climbs steadily to the top. The motive power is a man's love. Both are dancers; the first of the type usually called "nice," whose blood is burned with ragtime rhythms; the second, a cabaret performer. A London flat, a Canadian barroom, a bridal suite at the Savoy, and a music hall dressing room in Paris are the successive backgrounds. Romance is omnipresent...
Education. Discord between orthodox and reformed Jews clanged harshly when the committee on education reported that less than 25% of Jewish children receive religious education, and proposed a national committee to survey progress and distribute information on this subject. Champions of orthodoxy protested, fearing invasion of parental rights. Agreement was reached upon the formation of an education committee of purely informative function...
...Jentsch thinks, French plots have brought on the Separatist movement or whether, as Professor Feuillerat claims, it is all due to the innate Rhenish hatred for Prussia. But it is interesting to realize that in Aix and Bonne, in Coblenz and Dortmund there is a struggle in progress the result of which is nearly as important for the future of France and Germany as were the battles of the Marne and Verdun. The balance of power has shifted since 1914 from Germany to France and England, forever anxious to keep the scales even, is moving further and further from France...
...usual he is interesting, but interesting particularly in his inability to fathom psychological intricacies as he has fathomed the mysteries of mechanical invetion. It is easy to put faith in his prophetic vision when he says that the immense development of hydro-eletric power now in progress may lead within a score of year to a four hour working day. But when he prophecies that the younger generation will "spend that shortness basely" few who have either faith in education or sympathy with youth will deny that his vision is astigmatized...