Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France of devaluation and last week riding the crest of acclaim. Deputies and Senators who used to scoff at his ideas showed strong inclination to regard him as an expert pilot in the difficult monetary channel France must now navigate. Deputy Reynaud dismissed as of minimum importance the stabilization agreement Finance Minister Vincent Auriol had verbally obtained from U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. and British Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain (TIME, Oct. 5). It was scarcely worth the breath in which it w.as spoken, M. Reynaud indicated, but it was also harmless since neither Washington...
Some such arrangement would, without any question, have been most beneficial to Harvard this fall. If it were possible to arrive at such an agreement without making serious changes in the academic schedule or educational philosophy of other University, then by all means let it be done, but only under these conditions...
...criticise Yale's action as surreptitiously cheating on the eligibility agreement or to demand that Yale give up fall makeup exams is simply to overlook the facts of the case...
...Three agreement does not dictate the program of finals, midyears, hour or makeup exams in each University any more than it sets the requirements for a passing grade in Freshman English. When Harvard abolished November and March probation for upperclassmen and then reduced midyear pro, it was never felt by those in Cambridge that such action was in any way the concern of Yale or Princeton...
...seize upon it in the present case as a device merely for improving the football team is to be as blind to the facts as the demand that it be abolished is presumptuous. When undergraduates or alumni of Harvard are willing to consider a university as cheating on an agreement merely because it fails to reorganize its academic program so that a competitor, functioning under a different educational system entirely, may be at less a disadvantage, then truly the great god professionalism-in-athletics openly reigns supreme...