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...matches are to consist of three two-minute rounds and an extra two minute period if no decision is reached, under the requirement of the Intercollegiate rules. Under these rules the referee has the power to disqualify a boxer if he is cheered or applauded by the spectators. The Harvard Athletic Association requests that students applaud only after the round is finished. The referee has complete powers of decision, there being no judges in these bouts...
Allow me to applaud your editorial position opposing military training as a part of a liberal education. Having been for four years an officer in such military organizations, I believe I can say that they have a very malicious effect on the mind of the student when it is in its formative stage, particularly in teaching the "inevitability of war." The student is taught to take war as a normal part of life: the efforts to rid the world of this scourge are seldom mentioned...
...Nast's plight were not only Vogue's readers, but other publishers, who eyed each other suspiciously to see who had been treating a brother so. The files of public prints were examined. Publisher Nast's lawyers were interrogated. And then the other publishers had to applaud Publisher Nast...
...played "straight," never consistently acted. Once Actor Cohan comes down to the footlights and soliloquizes to the effect that everyone in the world is an actor, that he alone is a spectator, that some day he will meet the Great Author. Spectators take this to be in dead earnest, applaud loudly. Sole orthodox comic part is played by Joseph Allen in the role he created: the puzzled hired man who always manages to get on the scene just after some calamity has occurred, exclaiming, "What's all the shooting...
...many years of relations. Though of course Yale has been able to do little toward bettering the situation, there has always been the hope here that the Big Three would be once more intact. Now signs point toward the realization of that hope, and the News wishes to applaud and encourage the actions of the Lampoon and the Tiger. Yale News