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...Cambridge School Committee has been effectively gutted by politics in recent years. Split into two warring camps with reformers holding a powerless four to three edge, the seven man board has been unable to push through needed reforms. The great majority of projects recommended to the School Superintendent's attention have stalled through the concerted efforts of Superintendent Tobin and three Committee members. Although a four to three majority can propose an improvement, the investigation and ultimate operation of the plan rests with the school administration and Mr. Tobin. If this administration fails in its duties, the School Committee cannot...
...would by then have at least 300 divisions available, further reinforced by the Chinese Communist armies. The war in Asia could be brought to an end within two years, according to Soviet estimates. And once China was conquered, a compromise peace could be offered the U.S., based on a split of the world into two zones: Europe (except Britain), the Near and Middle East, North Africa and China to the Russians; the Indies, Indo-China, Indonesia, South America, Britain and her colonies and Japan under American influence...
Actually, nobody was surprised at the outcome. Four of the Techmen who helped rout the Crimson yesterday had beaten Harvard's first man last year. What puzzled Coach Mikkola was the inability of the Varsity to split up the sixman M.I.T. block which ran more or less together...
...longest split-week in Harvard's theatrical history is beginning to suffer from a glut of empty seats. Like Benny and Allen, the Harvard Dramatic Club and the Veteran's Theatre Workshop seem to think there's nothing like a feud to fill the stands. The stunt is wearing thin, though, and readers of the daily communiques are beginning to wonder why both groups don't fold their flats and silently steal away to squabble in a small, warm, soundproofed room...
...than ever. Most teams are using half a dozen different styles of defense-four-, five-and six-man lines, each having variations known as loose, looping, overshifted, undershifted, orthodox. On offense, the tricky T formation is still the style, with a multitude of refinements, bearing such labels as the split T, the wing T, the QT, the cockeyed T. Said Iowa's Coach Eddie Anderson : "Football is different these days. You don't play a team any more; you play a squad. The trend is to have one team in for offense, another for defense...