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...defeats followed close upon each other after the New Haven disaster. Columbia nosed out the Tiger team on January 18 in two extra periods, 4-3, and on the 21st, the Orange and Black players were put into the discard by the superior team-work of the University sextet. Princeton possessed the greater brilliancy, but these individual flashes were of-set by the steady offensive power of the Crimson machine and the Tigers went back with the short end of a 3-0 score. The last game to date came on January 27 when Princeton again humbled Pennsylvania, this time...
...pointed out that we are too often influenced by the effects of "mob rule", and as a result our ideas are generally not our own, but those of the great body of the people. It is our duty, therefore, to find out where our opinions come from to discard those due to the momentary impressions of the masses, and retain only the views which are the result of sincere and careful deliberation...
...under construction, Japan's relative tonnage is raised; but America decided to propose scrapping them all. In addition, by scrapping all American, British, and Japanese ships that can fairly be called obsolete or nearly so, and giving Japan the advantage of retaining ships of an age which America would discard, it is discovered, Japan's relative tonnage rises still further so that instead of being as originally 10-5 it becomes 10-6. But America proposes to scrap those too. These figures are rough, but they serve to show to what extent America is willing to sacrifice the certain advantage...
...interest and thought in this, the greatest of world problems. The students of America need sound principles and ideals, albeit tempered by practical considerations, to govern their actions when they step from universities to positions of responsibility in the world. Let us not see nine out of ten students discard the theories learned at college and go through life governed by expediency and prejudice...
...very slow match at Divinity Field yesterday, the University tennis team swept another of its opponents, Brown University, into the discard by a score...