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...called for them, are a necessary alternative. If Harvard and Yale show determination in establishing and recognizing such teams, Dartmouth, Brown, and the smaller New England colleges must eventually follow suit. Then the necessary corollaries of a Freshman team and a more complete Varsity schedule would be a fait accompli. In any case the H.A.A. should look to the waning popularity of their most publicized, most remunerative sport, and give a thought to the future of a game that is admittedly "more fun to play than to watch...
...heinous hierarchy of our parties, be stified by the knowledge that the tempting rungs have been filched from the ladder, and are distributed by the high mok-a-mok to his faithful chieftains? Why in short, do we prattle so happily of civil service reform as a fit accompli because men who sort letters and deliver mail are chosen by examination, when those who direct their activity are selected, simply and openly, by politicians? No really successful civil service, such as the British or the Swiss, has developed with this poison at its roots, and ours cannot escape the rule...
...Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson dashed off note after stern note. Last week news of Shanhaikwan's fall was brought to "Woodley," Mr. Stimson's home, just as he was tendering a reception to the diplomatic corps. Over cakes & tea Japan's new fait accompli was discussed-but nothing more...
...Mukden, capital of Manchuria, the Japanese tried to make their occupation even more of a fait accompli last week by staging a parade of 10,000 Japanese and Chinese. The marchers carried banners begging continued Japanese occupation: "We Want Order...
Guest Laval has not forgotten. Neither has Host Hoover. Every few days this month the State Department reassured French journalists that in Washington M. Laval would positively be confronted by no cut & dried proposal, by no fait accompli. Exquisitely anxious to return this courtesy Premier Laval, aboard the S. S. lie de France last week, declared...