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...liable to demotion. The desultory interest shown in House athletics shows that the step from intercollegiate to intramural status is a big one, and that many students find the spur of scheduled outside matches necessary to make them appear at all in the gymnasium or on the field. To abolish this competition would be to start a rapid decline in some of the most worthwhile of Harvard athletic pursuits...
...local chapters never escape tut-tutting at sessions of the National Interfraternity Conference, which represents the elders of 62 U. S. Greek Letter societies. Meeting last week in Manhattan, the Conference administered to Hell Week its severest slap to date by resolving "to give cordial support to measures to abolish Hell Week taken by any college or university...
...word "college" in a triumphal stage whisper, as if pleased to discover that the parietal rule did not deal with an Old Folks Home. Continuing, "This has to do with a regulation of the college . . . in connection with women. . . . Hm. But it will only work to disadvantage. They will abolish it. It is imperative...
...Shipping peers such as Lord Essendon of Furness, Cunard White Star and 27 other lines, expostulated in vain last week against the Government's announced intention to decrease or abolish British shipping subsidies as soon as mounting freight rates equal or surpass the rates...
Said Chairman Plant: "The question of union recognition is not involved. We do not seek to abolish hiring halls. A major issue is that of selection of men- that is, who shall have the right to say to whom American ship operators must entrust their ships. Employers believe that the owners should have this right. To resume negotiations under current circumstances would be useless." This attitude Harry Lundeberg termed "arbitrary and unreasonable." Thus last week the situation remained the old poser: what happens when the irresistible meets the immovable...