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Here is Turkish humor with a vengeance. Kemal suggests to the rest of Europe with shrewd wit: "You may debate, and argue, and bargain, but I shall neither hear nor understand you." And this is exactly the attitude which the Turkish Nationalists have assumed since they burst in through Europe's back door by means of the Mudania Pact in October...
...single seat applications. And whatever the article meant, it implies that our centre sections are given over to undue privileges and graft. If the CRIMSON has any suggestion worth while, it had far better make its suggestions to the Athletic Committee than in print where many people may not understand. Mr. Moore is bound by regulations and restrictions made for him by others in authority over him. After his admirable work of all these years, his courteous treatment of many bitter critics, and his extremely conscientious handling of every situation that arises, particularly in the distribution of football tickets...
...John Eli by a quaint fancy, namely they had a man name Gus Buell playing defensible full back on there nine and finely a ball was kicked to same and he catched it and run with it. The usual procedure in football as I have come to understand it is for a defensive full back to wait for a kick to start comeing and then lay down on a well-greased linoleum rug and begin playing cross-eyed parchesi with the man he graduated from high school. But this time this Buell guy catched the kick and run back with...
...expended in collecting data to be poured out at stated intervals. In England we place no such stress on our examinations. In correcting a paper the professor will try to see if you have a grasp of the subject in its relations to the world and whether you understand what the meaning of the whole thing is. I have heard a history professor tell a student that it was entirely unnecessary to include dates in his paper on the ground that he could readily tell without them whether or not the student had a grasp of the subject...
...even Mr. Lawrence's ticket takers, and farmers and young country girls, are all of them stark mad, mad in an unpleasant rasping way. All of his characters have un-natural lights in their eyes, and their brains are pounding with agonies of an existence which they do not understand. All of this is cleverly written and may be what Mr. Lawrence is after...