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...change of government, as local and not national issues are the primary considerations. On the other hand, it may reasonably be argued that an overwhelming loss by the Government party could be construed as a moral obligation upon the Cabinet to submit its position to the acid test of a general election; but no overwhelming loss occurred; the Liberals and Conservatives still hold the balance of power; the Laborites control the Municipal Council in only seven towns and their gains were made chiefly in the industrial centres, while their most notable loss was in the radical stronghold of Glasgow...
...Baldwin Government, elected in the fall of 1924, still has two years to run before its five-year mandate expires, although it is usual for a government to hold a general election before that time, but a decision to submit its position to the test of an election depends almost entirely upon the will of the Cabinet. Today there is a good deal of dissatisfaction in the land and much loud grumbling, which is more characteristic than specific. But Mr. Baldwin still holds a very comfortable majority in the House of Commons, and the chances are, therefore, that there will...
...ruling of the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports, following the test bouts with M. I. T. last year, boxing is not to be an intercollegiate sport this year. The undergraduate members of the committee stated that boxing did not lend itself to intercollegiate athletic competition, and on their recommendation the sport was confined within intramural limits...
With the adoption of a "bogie" score, which gives the rating a student should attain in his college work upon the basis of his showing in his entrance examination, his school record, and the psychological test given at the beginning of freshman year, the scholastic attainments of the undergraduates are showing a marked improvement, it was announced today by President John Grier Hibben in his annual report to the Princeton Board of Trustees...
...blame, adequately represent the situation. Such a condition is inconceivable to dwellers in American cities. It is safe to say, however, that this mass of irresponsible and unsheltered children, too numerous for the orphanages of any nation to control, will serve in the next ten years as a test of the Soviet's ability. If they neither die off, nor grow up into gangs of adult criminals, but find a place in the social order, unlimited praise will be given to the government which rescues them...