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...Dullest of sport events is shot-putting. On a track-meet program, it is usually an incidental diversion while running races are being staged. This year, however, the shot-put has thudded into more general attention due to a Titan named Al Blozis...
Albert Viton's Great Britain is by long odds the dullest and most instructive of the three. A static, black-&-white study of Britain and her concentric rings of Empire, it ends by appraising the Empire at war, sets up those crises which await it at war's end, and delivers the opinion that it will survive them...
This Harvard team could use some in baseball. It lacks a personality star like Lupe Lupine, but Eastern Intercollegiate League baseball is on a high standard. Any coach realizes that college baseball can become one of the dullest of all sports to watch, and they all try to do what they can to remedy the situation. Floyd Stahl proved last year, in his first at Harvard, that he could make his team hustle. There were no squabbles or arguments with umpires, and the players moved when they came on and off the field. They played nine innings of ball against...
...Beard published his Economic Interpretation of the Constitution. Probably the dullest book of sensational history ever written, it infuriated conservative historians and editors by documenting the shocking lucidity with which the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution in their own economic interest. Newspapers screamed that Beard was a "hyena." Ex-President Taft (whom Beard calls his heaviest critic-"by tonnage") damned it in a special speech. High schools banned the book; public libraries put it on the restricted shelf. Nicholas Murray Butler sputtered that his derelict professor of politics was aping "the crude, immoral and unhistorical teaching of Karl Marx." Charles...
Rumors that this year's Freshman class is the dullest in recent years were blasted yesterday when University Hall released statistics of the mid-year grades. Although the number of "C" marks has declined from 46.7 to 44.5 percent, the number of honor grades has increased from 35.2 to 37.4 percent...