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...bill to "safeguard the Christian ideals of American education" will be taken up by the Education Committee of the Massachusetts State Legislature within two weks. Behind its pious title, it contains threats against the tax-exempt status and the charter of any educational institution which "knowingly employs in its faculty one who advocates the overthrow of the United States government by force or violence." Representative Ralph Sullivan of Boston, author of the measure, claims that charters and tax exemptions are given to colleges by the state in return for such services as "improving standards of education" and "taching respect...
When Stan Priddy's freshman hockey team meets Yale at New Haven this afternoon, it will get another of its few chances to see how ice actually feels underfoot. With scarcely any practise time behind them, the Yardling skaters will have to fight hard to beat a squad--supposedly equal on paper that can boast a long string of practise sessions in recent weeks...
...team, Harvard is not expected to do much, for among the 16 schools converging on Ithaca today will be the class of the East. The highest rated teams are defending champion Lehigh, Penn State, Franklin and Marshall, and Syracuse. Navy, Cornell, and Princeton are ranked just behind the four leaders...
Revival after a seven-year lapse of Lowell tradition of presenting an opera annually has been received enthusiastically by Boston and Cambridge academic and society folk, who have swung a measure of financial support behind the project...
Only for one instant in the whole game did Bill Barclay's suad show any signs of life. Behind, 18 to 4, at the eight minute mark, the Crimson suddenly caught fire, and on three set shots by Walt McCurdy, two hooks by John Rockwell, and a pair of fouls by Ed Smith, moved within two points of the home team. Two quick free throws borke the ice for the Tigers, and they moved to a 31 to 22 lead at the half...