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...international army, not especially British. If the idea prevails that one nation dominates, that is the rock on which we may split...
...dared Conservatives fail to fall in behind the Chancellor? The fact of their daring proved once more how muddlesome and namby-pamby is the leadership of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Last week the Party was definitely split and undetermined on the issue presented by Mr. Churchill's money bill: namely, should the Government pay in whole or in part the allowed claims of loyal Irish subjects of His Majesty who had suffered destruction of their property during the Sinn Fein insurrections (1916-20). Should a Loyalist whose mansion had been burned down by mobsmen get a whole new house...
...educational machinery in Cambridge. Judging by undergraduate opposition to the House Plan, one must conclude that Harvard itself notices very little the clogging of its system. It is this refusal to consider as a weakness what others see as the major fault to be corrected that has caused the split in the Harvard camps; no amount of official assurance or calm approval from the outside can make the undergraduate believe that he needs a more settled world to live...
...Gore and McKinlock combined. With the new Houses surrounding the Freshman dormitories, it certainly seems far safer to move the Freshmen to the Yard than to try to work the two systems side by side. Moreover, if the Freshmen are not moved, the Yard dormitories will have to be split into Houses. Such a procedure would be far more difficult and much less likely to succeed than the adapting of the Yard to the present system of Freshman segregation...
...Court Auctioneer is likewise in a position where graft can be a sore temptation. By forced sale he turns possessions into cash. He may conspire with a few choice buyers to undersell assets to them at a bountiful profit which they graciously and secretly split with him. He may rig his auction books to show low sale prices, pocketing money that should go to creditors...