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...Note: Captain Balsan was quoted yesterday as saying the German team was "unused to the slide and entered the curve at the wrong place . . . and was further endangered by the fact that the runners on their sled were rounded". The CRIMSON regrets that the headline did not make it clear that the Germans were, in Captain Balsan's opinion, inexperienced only as regards the Mount. Van Hoevenburg...
...college wants to dismiss a waster, there are plenty of ways of convicting him. Using marks in courses for discipline; promotion, rank lists, prizes, and graduation is simply an administrative convenience which obscures the real business of education--actual individual progress in learning--and centers attention in the wrong place. Harvard Alumni Bulletin...
...Tokyo had heard from London which had it from Riga that in Moscow last week highest officials of the Communist Party stood around a table upon which Josef Stalin banged his fist, explaining his "Harbin Policy": Peace. Tokyo was titillated by the possibility that this "inside dope" might be wrong, that Russia might fight...
...year ago. The late Thomas Edison rode in one but the car will not be called the Edison, as reported. In November Mr. Ford decided against launching the eight, and the plants were busy on the improved four. Suddenly Mr. Ford said he "felt he was on the wrong track." Instantly the plants shut down to make ready the eight. For the first time in years Mr. Ford appeared in the laboratories daily, supervised the countless engineering tests...
Sixteen years ago a young bride & groom, students at New York University, were hunting for a place to live in upper Manhattan. The landlady at one rooming-house tried to interest them by saying that she never took in Jews. She said the wrong thing. The alert, bright-eyed little groom was of pure Hebrew stock, born in Russia, educated in Palestine. His bride, also Jewish, said as they walked away: "If we ever have a son let us call him Yehudi [which in Hebrew means "a Jew"], and let him stand or fall on his name...