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...game will be won or lost, from the Harvard viewpoint, according to the way that the substitutes fill the shoes of the regulars. In the line the play of the ends and the tackles defensively will be the deciding factors. The ends have no Cagle to worry about this year but they have an array of backs to watch, and the most deceptive offensive system in the country to combat. In the backfield the manner in which the understudies execute the lateral pass will be one of the deciding factors of the game. But Harvard's chief threat lies...
...What I am about to tell you must not be interpreted in an absolute sense, but merely as my viewpoint after long and diligent study of the situation. If no unforeseen and irreparable events, such as war, occur-and Italy has done, is doing and will do everything possible to avoid war-if the phases of the economic phenomenon are not disturbed by extraneous elements, then we are already leaving the night behind us and are walking toward the dawn. In other words the crisis has now touched its culminating point with the new American crashes...
...majority of undergraduates cannot fail to be in agreement with such a viewpoint. The fact that this viewpoint was presented as palatable for a Phi Beta Kappa gathering does not detract from its value to the ordinary layman. Especially at Harvard, Georgian overtones carefully mingled with the muted chords of aristocracy must be balanced by a freer cadence, or an overpowering suffocation may cloud the symphony completely. In an environment such as the House Plan has created and will create, an environment beautiful in itself and of itself good, the student may have difficulty in remembering that...
...meaning, Barren's (Dow-Jones weekly) decried this prophet who foresaw drought months ahead, wondered why he did not have the power to prevent it as well. While Roger Ward Babson's recent fame gave his report wide publicity, dispatches from London quoted a more bullish viewpoint on the part of a far greater financier. As president of the mighty Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada, Thomas Bassett Macaulay must know about common stocks. For Sun Life has a special partiality toward common stocks, is reputedly the world's largest stock buyer and stock owner. When...
...rebuttal Count Bethlen flatly declared that Hungary does not interpret her pledges to the Council of Ambassadors in 1921 as the French do, namely as barring the restoration of a Habsburg. "This momentous question," he declared, "must be decided not on a personal basis but from the viewpoint of our domestic political situation and after negotiations with the powers...