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...Harvard oarsmen, however, should show the results of two year of consistent rowing policy. For some time past each unsuccessful season has meant a sudden shift in coaches, with results more discouraging as the inevitable consequence. With Coach Stevens as head of a new regime the 1921 varsity crews made a very favorable showing against the powerful Yale crews at New London Under the same system of instruction progress has been consistent. Graduates and undergraduates may rest assured that whatever the final outcome may be of this afternoon's bitter struggle, they can shout lustily at the end: "Well rowed...
While those in closest touch with tutorial work believe in the superiority of the Oxford method to the course system, a sudden departure from our established position could hardly be advocated, even by them. And since the latter system has certain advantages of its own, which will be pointed to presently, our policy should rather be to strive to collect the strong features of both plans into an original production than simply to choose the better of two possibilities...
Reports in the foreign press that the election of Hindenburg means a sudden change of policy were largely hostile propaganda. The best political brains of Germany are behind the Monarchist cause. The present Government is predominantly Monarchist. They can, taking stock of the actual situation, be relied upon to work the Experts' ( Dawes) Plan, conclude the Five Power Pact, if France will let them, which recognized the cession of Alsace and Lorraine (TIME, Mar. 16) and generally follow the policy adopted by Republican Germany: for to do otherwise would assuredly spell disaster to Germany...
True slang is born of sudden inspiration, or actual need for a specifying word. It strengthens the language until that time arrives when its meaning has been so twisted and broadened that it becomes no longer respectable. Either it will escape this calamity and become a real word, or like the term "flapper", which originally was an apt expression, it will sink to the level of drab profanity...
...Lament went to Italy "for nothing more than a vacation," but bankers' "vacations" have come to possess a special and technical significance-something akin to the sudden "illness" of diplomats. Bankers leave Manhattan loaded with golf-clubs, but closely followed by earnest-faced secretaries even more heavily loaded with brief cases and portfolios...