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...main and very strong objection to Mr. Foster's major proposal--for a graduate committee of fifty to have complete direction of rowing--is that most of the evils that had crept into crew at Harvard were directly traceable to the upsetting influence of the old Graduate Rowing Committee. Few indeed were the compensating benefits for this outside supervision, and no reasons suggest themselves for believing that history would not repeat itself...
Moscow orders, Russia obeys. With the fear of Dictator Stalin in their hearts, peasants rushed madly from their homes to catch 13,530 sparrows. They caught some 2,000 and caged them in a barn, but hungry local cats crept in and killed 200 sparrows overnight. What, oh what...
...last week Dean Jones's successor, Clarence Whittlesey Mendell, made known that liberalism had crept into Yale, that a new curricular plan will be instituted next year...
...President Hoover breathed more easily. Returns then indicated that the worst (for him) had been averted. With only 40 districts to be heard from, the Democrats had only 183 House seats, 35 short of the vital figure of Majority. As the morning wore on, the Republican count crept slowly closer to that vital, fateful...
...assumed virtual leadership, he accepted for the societies a $25,000 gift from Winchester Arms Co. Horrified bird lovers made him give it back. Since then subdued criticisms have been heard from time to time, occasional horrified ejaculations that a man with a gunner's heart had crept into the Society, was perverting its policies. Last year a pamphlet signed by the late W. DeWitt Miller, vice president of the New Jersey Audubon Society, berated large bird societies for neglecting their duties. These charges, to which President Pearson turned an indifferent ear, are the direct cause of the present...