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...pound class between Peter B. Olney '37 and the Yale Captain, Huffman, the judges were again split. The referee voted for Harvard. Again the bout went to Yale on the basis of the total points scored by each judge...
...complete reorganization of the elementary courses taking place next fall, Languages is expected to provide a solid, carefully-graduated introductory approach. French F, one of the new, broader courses, is expected to produce great things. It was suggested however, that in the middle group French S might be split into two half courses and a new one introduced to cover all the 18th century except Voltaire. It was also felt that there was a need for a 19th century poetry course...
Last week Smith Wildman Brookhart informed Iowa voters that he was prepared to move back into the Senate. Already there are four other Republican candidates out for the seat now held by Senator Lester Jesse Dickinson. Aware that this split in votes would make things much easier for him in the June primaries. Candidate Brookhart put forward a platform calculated to outdo the AAA: export dumping, price-fixing on crops...
...Caribbean, Captain Wallace Culbertson gunned his four motors for the takeoff. Skimming along at 50 m. p. h. he spied a small launch directly in his path. Although he swerved, a wing pontoon grazed the launch and the big plane skidded in a wild half-circle. The fragile hull split open and water poured in. Twenty-two desperate men & women scrambled to escape by hatchways and portholes. When the Clipper sank up to the overhead wing, two passengers and a steward were trapped, drowned...
Landis, who has now been on leave from the Law School for three years, is reported to be considering strongly resigning his job as one of the key men of the New Deal to return to his teaching post. Landis has not split with Roosevelt and is known to be one of the staunchest supporters of the present administration, but desires a return to private life...