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...addition to these reasons the air force of the army has been greatly reduced, and the whole service is now making extensive preparations for the so-called "bombing project", which will consist of a series of manouvres designed to test the capacity of the aero service to withstand the attacks of a hostile fleet. Both men and machines are now being tied up in consequence of these preparations; and to loan the Intercollegiate Association enough planes for a meet would necessitate an impossible shift in the department's present arrangements...
...high school teachers are needed a year here, only a few hundred are necessary in France and Germany. This demonstrates the importance of training teachers to teach and of interesting young men and women in the profession. The Dean closed with an appeal for teachers to withstand the temptation of offers to become mere administrators with slightly higher salaries when they could be of more service to mankind as educators...
Russia is not satisfied with Bolshevism. So far the opposition has been expressed in spasmodic and disorganized attempts to resist the absolutism and military dictatorship of Lenine and his kind. But they have been feeble efforts, utterly unable to withstand the Red armies. Disorganization in Russia has proved a blessing to Bolshevism...
...conventions by party leaders determined to obscure or to neutralize every possible issue alike in the realm of ideas and of practical affairs, none but the gullible have any choice but to register at the polls without voting at all. This line of action requires of us courage to withstand exasperating misrepresentation and it is futile without public explanation. But it will remain the only effective course open to liberals until normal-minded parties arise in place of those organizations which have effected not one act of public importance since their provocation of civil...
...field. The team has had a stiff week of practice, remedying the faults revealed in the game with Worcester. The Groton team, since its defeat at the hands of Milton last Saturday, has developed considerably but it is doubtful whether the light and inexperienced eleven will be able to withstand the Freshman attack...