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...their annual meeting in Manhattan last week, officials of the Amateur Athletic Union decided unanimously to take a step that they have been talking about for 25 years: to abolish yards, feet and inches for measuring distances at U. S. track and field competitions, use meters instead, starting...
...Harvard's team did not play before a single capacity crowd in the stadium during the season just ended. Yale's experience in the bowl was only a little happier. Dartmouth's income from gate receipts this fall was so meagre that the athletic council has been forced to abolish formal freshman teams in all sports except football. The experience of these three New England colleges is probably typical of gridiron conditions throughout the country. Except where the competing teams have been conspicuously victorious, as in the case of Brown and Colgate's game at Providence on Thanksgiving...
...fitted to be the center of alumni activity. Certainly they present the best opportunity for alumni unity. On the whole, therefore, it would seem desirable for the Senior class to extend the scope of the Houses into the elections wherever possible; and for the Junior and Sophomore classes to abolish them completely...
...President Hoover's rosiest 1928 quotations. Speaker Garner's argument took this tack: The 1929 crash and subsequent Depression hit the U. S. first, did not. as Republicans claim, come from abroad. The economic collapse developed from domestic folly and the notion that prosperity was about to "abolish poverty." For two years President Hoover minimized Federal deficits, missed his guess as to their total size by about four billion dollars. Public distrust of Treasury policy was at the root of last winter's panic. The President was two years late getting around to budget balancing. Declared Democrat...
...your hands!" By a rising vote of acclaim Sir Charles Trevelyan's motion became law unto Laborites. He fired a powder train of resolutions in which the Congress voted last week to: I) Nationalize the Bank of Eng- land and the "Big Five" private banks; 2) abolish the House of Lords as "dangerous and unnecessary"; 3) maintain friendly trade relations with Soviet Russia; 4) bar from ever rejoining the Labor party not only James Ramsay MacDonald but also Viscount Snowden, J. H. Thomas and every former Labor M. P. who has voted for the National Government...