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...Latin oration was delivered, also in accord with a long-standing tradition, followed by the new president's inaugural address. In the evening the undergraduates marched with torch-lights to the Stadium, where Lowell greeted them...
...players go to Wimbledon. They blast the rest of the world aside. Then to Germany, perhaps, where the victory is less brilliant. Then weeks of vicious internecine practice in which the beat each other regularly thus destroying all confidence and by the sole and necessary fact of defeat make accord raters out of champions. They live on the Place do la Concorde, world's noisiest square. Unable to sleep, they stroll the streets till midnight. This means getting up about 12 o'clock the next day for the match. A child of twelve could advise better...
Harvard's next president, James Bryant Conant, brings to his position the executive training acquired as head of the Department of Chemistry, and intensive knowledge of his special field; in addition to these qualifications, according to these who know him, he possesses wide interests which extend to the educational and cultural fields he is to lead in the future. His election, on these grounds, is a well calculated choice. In order to dispel the fears aroused by Professor Conant's devotion to his own subject, the daily press has made much of the fact that President Eliot also...
...short-term loan, thereby benefiting by the superabundance of free money in the British money market. It will be ?25,000,000 or ?30,000,000 in bonds for six months at 2½%. By thus procuring pounds the French Treasury will transform them into francs on exchange in accordance with its needs and in accord with the Bank of England...
...intercollegiate contest. There is no limit to the number of teams of graded ability that interested students can organize; in any way to permit a victorious House to be regarded as unjustified in its victory, or to place House sports in a position of inferiority, is little in accord with the broadest policies of the University...