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...failing popularity of baseball, smaller squads in football, apathy in regard to "student government," the tremendous rise of informal sports like squash, golf, and tennis, consternation of advisory athletic committees about the new low struck by Princeton teams--these are among the considerations which have led the Princetonian to affirm a belief which is widely held on the Campus. The specific causes of present conditions we have tried to set forth in a number of previous editorials. That they are not peculiar to Princeton is evidenced by similar testimony from the Williams Record, the Dartmouth, the Yale News, the Harvard...
Neither of these decisions on Harvard's part are broadly influential. They take cognizance of the variety of forces bearing on the whole athletic situation. No one would dare affirm that Harvard sports are simon pure. The privileges given to players and the care bestowed on first string men are are too well known. But in the gradual attempt to put sports on the mythical healthy basis, the combined and sometimes dissociated efforts of players, athletic heads, and faculty officials produce a continual advance in building up a sane athletic program...
...Today I affirm that the idea, doctrine and spirit of Fascismo are universal. It is Italian in its particular institutions, but it is universal in spirit; nor could it be otherwise, for spirit is universal by its very nature. It is therefore possible to foresee a Fascist Europe which will model its institutions on Fascist doctrine and practice, a Europe which will solve in the Fascist way the problems of the modern State of the twentieth century...
...they refuse to go to the polls on a straightforward platform. Prohibition is the issue in this election and it is an issue of grave importance for the future welfare of the Commonwealth. For the Republican press to becloud that issue with nonsense about a Democratic depression is to affirm their belief in the doctrine that it is easy to fool enough of the people at election time...
Whether a divorce procured in Campeche would be recognized in the U. S. appears to be problematical, for my learned correspondent says: "As to recognition of a local divorce in the U. S., I will say that I affirm the same has an identic statute as a divorce granted in one State of the U. S. to another State in the same country." Since no divorce has ever been "granted in one State of the U. S. to another State," there appears to be no precedent from which "identic statute" or the validity of a Campeche divorce can be determined...