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...after their strenuous games of the last two week-ends and before entering the final drive of the season. With this in mind the coaches have seized the opportunity to develop the reserve material which seems at present to be in need of experience and seasoning. Remembering the old axiom that a fort is as strong as its weakest point, the work of the substitutes against the Pennsylvanians will be watched with great interest...
...axiom that Jews are always plentiful as traders but scarce as tillers of the soil has been rudely upset by the Soviet regime in Russia. The State monopoly of trade has crowded out Jewish traders and forced them to scratch and sow the ground. During 1927 not less than 8,000 Russian retailers became farmers, according to Soviet statistics. Last week this process of readjustment, painful to Jews, seemed about to be smoothed by a philanthropic gift of $5,000,000 from famed Julius Rosenwald, chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co. (mail orders...
...American college environment is the shrine of mob worship of molded standards. Its heroes are individuals who are still of the campus. Its inflexible axiom lets those who deviate suffer in the pillory of mob spite. In such an atmosphere confirmed anglophiles are only pitiful...
...Steel reports have long been business barometers. But "as Steel goes, so goes the market," is no longer a Wall Street axiom. The decline in Steel earnings failed to depress the market last midweek when the report flashed over financial tickers. On the contrary, stocks moved higher probably because of the more glamorous General Motors figures. The automotive industry is now the dominating factor in U.S. industry...
There will be many who look upon the barren results of the CRIMSON's Eating Ballot as a substantiation of the well worn axiom that one may lead a horse to water but one cannot make him drink. Certainly there is opportunity for the analogy, in spite of the fact that the project concerned men and food instead of horses and liquid refreshments. One hundred and eighty five signatures are adequate proof that, whatever be the cause, a university dining hall with club tables is not the present be-all and the end-all of the student appetite...