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...transfer of the same ethics to intercollegiate sport holds possibilities pleasant to contemplate. Certainly it is wrong to encourage the men who lead our youth astray by returning their athletes' salaries to them, and in the past there has been no way of escape from the old adage, "once a professional always a professional." A study of the recent French strategy immediately suggests the possibility of asking youthful violators of the gentlemen's agreement to turn over their summer earnings to the funds of their Alma Mater's athletic association and begin life over again. Besides greatly improving the quality...
News from a corner of the earth rather remote from these prosperous states would indicate that the best laid plans of those statesmen who framed the Versailles Peace Treaty have once more gone astray. When three subject peoples of the old Austrian Empire were removed from the rule of that country and lumped into the combined Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, it was hoped that the ends of democracy, self-determination, and all the other idealistic phrases current at the time had been served with a finality that would leave everyone happy. But unfortunately the Serbs, who happened...
...Cash astray in mails...
...immaturity of the undergraduate voter is as unsettled as ever. With its elder brethren divided as they are, the College appears to be a balancing medium; and if hersdity determines the votes of the younger students, the net results are not too widely astray from those of the combined graduate schools...
British Bechuanaland. Dr. Will J. Cameron, Chicago dentist and inventor of surgical instruments, is an amateur anthropologist. He believes that Roy Chapman Andrews, hunting in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia for traces of man's origin, is astray, because "in a place like the Gobi it takes the ingenuity of the devil to survive." Obviously the statement is a rhetorical exaggeration by Dr. Cameron. The Gobi was once a lake, once a swamp. Dr. Cameron's idea is that man as a distinct anthropoid began in the withering Kalahari Desert of British Bechuanaland...