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Square-faced Hermann Jónasson, Premier of Iceland, last week decided he could no longer face the problems brought on by foreign occupation of Iceland. His Cabinet had split wide open...
...rush to the Harvard bandwagon has been terrific. Last Saturday caused more split-second somersaults than have been seen since last June when Hitler walked into Russia. The number one example of this is David Francis Egan '23, whose acid comments about the state of Harvard football during the era of Gladchuck and O'Rourke, were not meant for publication in the Alumni Bulletin. Following the Dartmouth victory Egan started his flip-flop, and after the Navy deadlock he reached down into his asbestos-lined dictionary to pull out words and phrases not used since B.C.'s adventures with Georgetown...
...Labor and Nationalists, agreeing on essential war policies, fought bitterly on other issues. Labor thought Opposition members within the War Cabinet were using their influence to torpedo its hard-won privileges and experiments in socialization. Nationalists accused Labor of us ing the war to push socialization. This threatened to split the country wider at the general elections...
...Merger offers some hope of becoming what the ASU might have been. Consisting largely of the fragments which deserted the Student Union over foreign policy, the Merger seeks to take over the old position of its predecessor--minus extreme leftist influence and minus excessive central-office control. Although the split which gave birth last year to the HLU has been paralleled in one way or another throughout the country, the dissenters have made no attempt until now to organize a successor to the potent front they broke...
Because of the split, the Club suffered in popularity among Harvard graduates for several years. During a tour of Europe in 1922, however, the club won international recognition, and it soon after gained its present predominant position in College life...