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Complaining that "in many American colleges it is possible for a boy to win-twelve letters without learning to write one," President Hutchins suggests that the best way to rid college football of overemphasis is to have a ten cent gate. He would also give athletic directors some kind of academic position "so that their jobs depend on their ability as instructors and their character as men, and not on the gates they draw...
...occurred over a Polish passport law, effective midnight October 29, requiring Polish citizens abroad to revalidate their passports or lose their citizenship. Germany, fearful that many of her estimated 55,000 Polish Jews would thus become virtual "citizens" of Germany, seized on the law as a pretext to get rid of them...
...British side. In the House of Commons this week, the Opposition, which had been crying "Shame!" at the Prime Minister and stressing "friendship" for Czechoslovakia without proposing measures of succor, was politically thunderstruck. It was obvious that the Czechs & Slovaks may find it good business to get rid of 3,250,000 Sudeten Germans in exchange for a loan of $150,000,000−or about $46 per blond Sudeten squarehead. The startled House could not but suspect that smart Dr. Benes had been secretly tipped off by Mr. Chamberlain beforehand as to how much wiser it might prove financially...
...mass of detail so abstruse that not all his colleagues could understand him. Many unsolved problems on turbulent motion still remain, but Wiener's enthusiasm for harmonic analysis was so intense last week that California Tech's famed Eric Temple Bell was moved to cry: "Who will rid me of this turbulent fellow...
Variety gradually came home from its crusade, but fortnight ago the American Federation of Actors, setting out to unionize the 312 carnivals in the U. S., took up Variety's dusty cudgels. A.F.A.'s aim: to clean up carnivals first, sign them up second, get rid of such entertainment...