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Facing Coxy Larner, in the stern of the shell, pacesetter and virtual sparkplug for the boat, is Vince Bailey who is stroking the 150's for the second year. In the course of time Vince has acquired considerable self-confidence and has the strength and the ability to row his own race provided he has even as much as a third of a length lead, and what's more he proved the efficacy of his confidence in the race last Saturday when he performed this very feat. He is only a junior, which speaks well for his own ability...

Author: By William W. Tyng, | Title: LINNING THEM UP | 5/19/1939 | See Source »

...York Times correspondent in Geneva since 1929, Streit has watched the League of Nations slip from its peak to virtual oblivion. Likening it to the American Articles of Confederation, he now feels that true democracies need the type of union effected by the 13 States...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clarence Streit, Author of "Union Now," Explains His Proposal for a Federation of the Democracies | 5/4/1939 | See Source »

James S. Lanigan '40, stressed the fact that "aggression anywhere in the world is a threat to the peace of the United States," and claimed that the co-existence of a fascist Europe and a democratic America is a virtual impossibility...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1200 SEE 'CRISIS' AT PEACE MEETING | 4/21/1939 | See Source »

Things have come to a pretty pass! The girls are pretty and college boys are making passes at them. With the virtual disappearance of the goldfish from the university scene, the latest snatch of Americans concerns itself with the time dishonored custom of kissing in public. whether such a fad can be hailed as a sign of the advent of free love, or whether it is significant of the moral decay of our younger generation is indeed a question of the utmost import. At any rate, as one noted educator put it recently, "... it's certainly more fun than goldfish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT NEXT, YOUTH? | 4/14/1939 | See Source »

Specific recommendations included in the current Council report call for "definite preference" to Junior and Senior applicants (already adopted); virtual guarantee of admission to all Dean's List Freshmen; stricter adherence to an "intellectual cross-section"; leniency toward men applying in groups; reduction of the number of graduate students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COUNCIL SEEKS CHANGES IN HOUSE ADMISSIONS | 4/11/1939 | See Source »

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