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...Michigan President Little put into effect many a controversial idea of his own in matters of athletics, student housing student vice pedagogy. Last week, any alumnus familiar with Michigan affairs could discern many a parallelism between events in President Little's administration and his observations in a book on the U. S. College...
...Justice Genevieve R. Cline, only woman member of the court, first woman appointee in the Federal judiciary. In a separate opinion she objected to the court's implication that a separate domicile was to be taken as an exception, not as an accepted rule: ''. . . I can discern no reason why they [wives] should not have equal rights as to the selection of a domicile. . . . The common law has been practically expunged...
...have taken over the tiny but gallant Greenwich Village Theatre where for their first production of the season they present a haunting, chaotic play by famed Sean 0'Casey of Dublin, author of Juno and the Paycock (TIME, March 29, 1926). Through its symbolism and its brogue you discern the simple story of an Irish footballer who went to war and returned paralyzed below the waist. He then had to roll himself about in a wheel chair while his erstwhile love cuddled another boy. In the meantime a profound and troublous scene has occurred. Avoiding the acute battlefront description...
...they are a gloomy touch that succeeds in destroying a good part of the afternoon's pleasure. It is assumed that the long-delayed adoption of numbers for players at Harvard was for the benefit of the onlooker, but what good are the figures when no spy-glass can discern them unless the play is within a few yards? The Associated Press is not to be blamed for discovering one Barry in the Harvard squad: the wonder is that the newsmen spotted the players as well as they...
Later the Times cooled down to the following well-bred remarks, the sleek irony of which will be lost on stupid people: "It is not easy for a European touching American shores to discern the pressure of a financial burden estimated by the President to exceed that of any other nation and to comprise 'half the entire wealth of the country at the time it entered the conflict...