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...wash out the graduate managers and their assistants, abolish the huge office with the filing cabinets and the private contracts and the secret understandings and all the rest. Come out into the open, let in some light upon athletic dealings in our great universities. Permit youth to run its own games and sports with the decent frankness of youth. If the boy of to-day at the age of nineteen or twenty is not competent to settle his own football schedule, by what stretch of imagination is it to be presumed that he will be able, a year later...
...always, plenty of suggestions. Senate Leader Watson dusted off the old Equalization Fee, famed export scheme of the 1928 campaign. The blunt proposal of Pennsylvania's Senator Reed, expressing the conviction of conservative eastern Republicans that the Board's price-fixing has been a futile costly mistake, was to abolish the Board at once and liquidate its holdings. Said he: "The Government can't artificially manufacture Prosperity for agriculture or any other industry...
...less respect today by public opinion than five years ago. One of the major reasons for this is its inability to allay the mutual suspicions between the various countries. "However, no one can expect more from the League than to keep peace," continued Dr. Bartholdy. "No one wants to abolish the League. We must make the best of it. In the future we shall have to look for cooperation on a greater scale, especially between France and Germany." The lecturer sees in the dual administration of African colonies one of the first moves toward this greater cooperation...
...been supported in this stand by eminent authorities: William J. Bingham of Harvard and Reginald D. Root of Yale; it has seen Amherst abolish the distinction between major and minor insignia and Princeton place all minor sports upon the same footing. These are all indications of a trend toward a similar...
Work Left Undone. The adjournment of Congress killed legislation to: 1) extend copyright privileges; 2) reduce immigration 90% for two years; 3) aid maternity and infancy welfare; 4) abolish the "lame duck" session of Congress (the Thomas filibuster was cited as a glaring example of the need for this reform); 5) build the Navy up to treaty limits; 6) dry up the capital; 7) put the U. S. into the World Court...