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...parting shot at the Navy was an offer to show in an actual test what airplanes could do. He suggested that the battleship North Dakota be subjected to trial. (She must soon be used for target practice since she is outside the Disarmament Treaty quota.) He suggested that the Navy equip her with a radio control...
...rhythm in the present cheer. A system of competition is to be established. But the crowd at a game is singularly averse to experiments in cheering, since vocal enthusiasm is only a by-product of interest in the game; and "chamber-expositions" of cheering are hardly a satisfactory test of merit in the field. Any group of vigorous and agile young men, who attack the problem with sufficient intelligence, numbers, and zest, can swing a favorable crowd into their own enthusiasm. The present corps of captains has in general, these qualifications, with the added advantages of undergraduate respect and actual...
...tenths of one percent higher than the grades of sons of non-Yale men-Dartmouth, Princeton, or even Harvard, perhaps? It looks very much as if Yale were not confident of this margin of superiority. If the sons of Yale men are indeed better scholastically, why apply any other test or qualification than that of scholarship? If they are not, what is their particular merit, or what their usefulness to a center of scholarship? The issue was discussed here last year; and the deservedly firm opposition to any such proposal is one very satisfactory proof that the spirit of liberalism...
...Living Room of the Union has been obtained for the occasion and Moynanan's orchestra will furnish the music. The mass meeting will follow the smoker and is planned as a rally for the undefeated hockey team before its crucial test with the Eli Freshmen...
...held for officeworkers. Speakers addressed all the clubs in Des Moines, including the Chamber of Commerce, Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions, Cosmopolitan, Canopus, Gyro, Caravan, Women's Civic. Said Mr. Proper: "This movement is the beginning of a great crusade. . . . Science has shown us that what is true in the laboratory test tube is true in the outside world. Both the church and the layman will gain immeasurably by this experiment...