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Neither of these decisions on Harvard's part are broadly influential. They take cognizance of the variety of forces bearing on the whole athletic situation. No one would dare affirm that Harvard sports are simon pure. The privileges given to players and the care bestowed on first string men are are too well known. But in the gradual attempt to put sports on the mythical healthy basis, the combined and sometimes dissociated efforts of players, athletic heads, and faculty officials produce a continual advance in building up a sane athletic program...
Believing firmly that Sir John Simon must be right, Lord Reading entered the Round Table Conference with a prepared speech in his pocket (TIME, Dec. 1). Excerpt: "You will forgive me if I use a strong expression. ... I say that it is idle to say that at this moment there could be anything like equality of status- constitutional status, that is-in India with the Dominions...
...Reading had heard virtually all the Indian Princes at the Conference deliver their astounding, unanimous plea for federation and self-government of India under the Crown-but Lord Reading had not grasped what he had heard. Last week, having boldly grasped the facts and still more boldly rejected the Simon Report, Lord Reading said...
...Slavery, by Lady Kathleen Simon (wife of Sir John), London, 1929 (Hodder & Stoughton). Her well-documented slavelands list: Abyssinia, Afghanistan, Arabia, Sierra Leone, Liberia; also ("modified slavery") Portuguese East Africa, Portugal's West African Islands St. Thome & Principe, French Equatorial Africa, Tanganyika etc. Lord Cecil recently estimated that there are at least 5,000,000 human slaves today. Liberia's estimated population, including freemen...
HARD LINES?Ogden Nash?Simon & Schuster...