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Harvard's usual custom has been to schedule a breather game the week before the Yale engagement, but this year the Harlowmen are almost sure to strike a Tartar in the well-drilled Brown Bears from Providence. Despite the banner showing of the Crimson eleven at Philadelphia, it will not be much better than an even money choice this Saturday...
Fortunately the eleven-day Easter recess of Parliament was just about to begin -and that gave France a breather. After consulting President Lebrun, Premier Reynaud & Cabinet decided not to resign, to try over Easter to pacify partisan passions and negotiate a solid Chamber majority...
...schedule has six home games and two away from Cambridge with Penn and Yale. After the opener with little Amherst on October 5, the Harlowmen will not have anything even faintly resembling a breather. On October 12, Fritz, Crisler, erstwhile Princeton mentor, will reappear in the Stadium, this time with a burly crew of Michigan Wolverines, headed by famed Tom Harmon...
This did not mean peace. Not until the Japanese are driven or withdraw from all China will Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek even talk peace. But it did mean a breather for weary China, and it meant, too, that even if Japanese armies can still whip the Chinese, economic and political troubles in Tokyo have seriously checked the Japanese army...
With hopes for an undefeated season blasted by the heart-breaking 13 to 14 loss to Seton Hall, the Crimson swordsmen will have a breather this afternoon when they face Boston University's team in the Indoor Athletic Building...