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...signing up from each class will be divided into small tournament groups that will play a series of test matches to determine the best seven players in each group. These winners will automatically be formed into a class team, and will be entered in the quadrangular class competition...
...President tested public opinion last week to see whether the country desires strong arm tactics against the anti-foreign land and oil laws of Mexico. The test consisted in a "leak" from the State Department to the effect that a very stiff note had been sent to the Calles government. When the note had been perused at Mexico City and had been declared no stiffer than usual by Foreign Secretary Saenz, the President had already received the benefit pf all that the newspapers could say on the subject of possible intervention.
...scheme, but in reality it is both a gentle repudiation of the Coolidge plan and a rebuke to the Democratic zeal for a general tax cut. Mr. Mellon wants the surplus to be credited to income taxes payable in 1927. Said he: "With only a few months' test of the Revenue Act of 1926, common sense requires that we do not act precipitately. . . . The necessity that we do not commit our Government to an unsound fiscal policy for the future should not prevent the Government treating its taxpayers fairly in any particular year in which Government revenues are overabundant...
Tomorrow's test will be the 18th annual race under the auspices of the I. C. A. A. A. A. Since 1908, the honors have been divided among seven Eastern colleges, Cornell, Syracuse, Pittsburg, Maine, Pennsylvania, Yale, and Harvard. The University won the team title in 1912 but since that time has not scored another triumph...
...entire cross country squad left for New Haven on Saturday morning to see the football contest. Since then, the runners have been resting in New York preparatory for today's test. All of Coach Mikkola's runners are in good physical condition. Captain Haggerty's ankle which has been bothering him most of the season has healed during the last week and he is fit to lead his men to triumph today...