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Yale came face to face with very much the same problem two years ago in selecting a president. She was forced to choose between several of her own alumni, and the graduate of another university, who was better fitted for the task. Contrary to tradition the outsider was chosen, and since then he has more than justified the faith placed in him. He has shown the value of the principle that new blood gives vitality to state or to college...
Competent observers are agreed that the tendency in England is away from coalitions, and middle-of-the-way groups toward two distinct parties. Mr. Baldwin is setting himself a real task in attempting to face this future without the help of the liberal factions of his party...
...politics he is an independent socialist. A man renowned for his brilliant rhetoric, vivacious temperament and engaging personality, M. Viviani showed even greater qualities during those first days of the war, when the existence of France was rendered so precarious, by complete subjugation of all other interests to the task of leading his country through her terrible ordeal. He is sometimes called the Lloyd George of France...
...true, as the report states, that "no plan of distribution can satisfactorily solve the seating problem", since there simply are not enough tickets to go round. The Committee's task, then, is more psychological than mathematical; the best it can do is to convince everyone that he is getting a "square deal." In past years the chief complaint has come down from those who were allowed to believe that they would get two or more tickets, and found at the last minute that they were left with only one. The new plan does not eliminate that fault. Those who apply...
...power behind each stroke seemed in a fair way to take the remaining distance by storm. With the right to race Yale at stake, the Sophomores rallied sharply and with half a mile to go raised the count to the neighborhood of 34 and buckled grimly to the task of making up the deficit. And they nearly succeeded in doing it, for the prow of the Senior shell cut the line barely 8 feet in front--a rather tight finish to say the least. Sophomore B came along a quarter length astern...