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...because all plans to add a dash of common sense to the Prohibition mass of emotional pottage are premature. A Congressional majority theoretically (and in part hypocritically) in favor of strict enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment and existing legislation under it we will have with us until public opinion shifts far more pronouncedly than it has as yet. And I see no probable cause of such a shift until the fallacy, tyranny, and essential unconstitutionality of the Eighteenth Amendment are made generally evident by the most drastic efforts to enforce...
...common for steelmen, throughout the industry to spend at least twelve hours a day at their sweaty, appalling tasks. Thousands of them waked at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, went to work until 6 o'clock the following morning. There was a similarly industrious day shift. The seven-day week was a commonplace. In June, 1923, the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America issued a detailed, dramatic report of these conditions. The report constituted a declaration of war. After interminable skirmishing the first major victory for the Church was the abolition of the twelve...
...lineup next week, the necessary spark and scoring punch may be added. Harvard's Canadian ace has been high scorer of the Crimson squad for two seasons and will expend all efforts in making up for lost time. His return to action will of course necessitate some lineup shifts, but just what should be done is open to question. Observations at practice sesions and games have revealed that the shift should come on the second line, while the first combination of Putnam, Garrison, and Stubbs would remain intact. A relief line of equal if not greater strength is needed...
...fellows, the undergraduate will be brought into social contact with faculty members, thereby lessening that breach between the two groups which is still widely decried by critics of our educational system. Contacts between upperclassmen and underclassmen will also be facilitated. Incidentally, the new system will make possible a shift of emphasis from intercollegiate athletics to intra-mural sport...
...been known in Cambridge since early last fall that Clarence Dillon '05, of New York City, has offered the University a sum large enough for a new and adequate building. It could not be learned this morning whether the razing of the old Locker Building would cause a shift in plans calling for an immediate start on the new structure...