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...Yale. We are all agreed that athletes should be admitted to Yale on exactly the same terms as anyone else, no harder and no easier. If the athlete needs financial assistance in order to win an education at Yale his application should be judged by the same criteria as those applied to the non-athlete. It is the Yale tradition that we admit athletes and non-athletes upon an exactly even plane...
...without victory over the external enemy, both socialism and democracy would be lost. He answers those who are calling for a complete blueprint of British war aims by pointing out that with events so completely in flux, the most that the British can do is to define the criteria on which their specific aims will be based, and this they are doing...
Marked symptoms of Old School Stuffiness in the service have recently begot the quip that "if the Foreign Office says so, you can be sure it's wrong." Last week Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden joined the British Army in publicly admitting that criteria built around The Old School Tie are so narrow as to keep out many of the best men for 20th-century jobs. To an applauding House of Commons he announced that hereafter posts in a combined Foreign Office-diplomatic-consular service* would be available to all on the basis of ability. Presumably salaries will be raised...
...three isolationist groups we know of, most of them actively engaged in considering the problems before America. On Tuesday a "Union Now" organization was launched. Perhaps Harvard, larger, more diverse, citified, makes poor comparing, but we maintain that the number and quality of such student activities are fair criteria of collegiate thinking. --Daily Princetonian...
Professor Taylor replied by pointing out that "political campaigns have often failed to focus the vote on what later became clear as the underlying issue; the campaigns of 1860 and 1916 are examples in point, and on the editor's criteria we have abandoned the democratic process long...