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...could scrap its codes, constitutions, institutions, traditions, start anew from scratch. Many a Utopian has meditated that heady impossibility. More realistic, Chairman William Yandell Elliott of Harvard's Department of Government last week presented a series of proposals for revamping the present Constitutional structure to accord with modern political and economic realities.* If adopted, his proposals might produce a scene like the following...
...H.A.A. really wants to know what is causing their yearly deficit, all they have to do is to examine the books of the crew, and the hockey and baseball teams. Why, each of these sports loses almost $20,000 a year of its own accord. I do not say that these teams should be abolished just because they are losing money, but, if there are going to be any endowment funds created to make up deficits, let the sports having the deficits create them--let the teams, after receiving a certain amount from the H.A.A. take care of the deficits...
...violation of the Treaty of Versailles (TIME, March 25) Last week M. Flandin decided that French youths of the class which has just finished its military training shall not return to their homes but remain under arms until further orders. Newly trustful of Italy since the Mussolini-Laval accord (TIME, Jan. 14), France withdrew nearly 30,000 troops last week from her mountainous Italian frontier, sent them scurrying cross-country to the pleasant valleys and leafy woods Germans might attack...
Said Chairman Harold Stirling Vanderbilt of the Whist Club's Committee on Rules: "These new figures are not as nearly in accord with the laws of chance as were the old, but the change was made to protect the pocketbook of the loser...
...important feature of the House is its dining hall system, independent of the centralized university system. This arrangement, which minimizes bureaucratic congestion, permits of a management of the dining hall to accord with the specialized demands of the House that is truly unusual; this factor is of especial importance in consideration of the fact that one-third of the student's working hours are spent in the dining hall...