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...much support as possible in the campaign for repeal of the Teacher's Oath Bill, a meeting will be held at 3 o'clock this afternoon at Phillips Brooks House. The meeting will be open to all members of the University, and the sponsors of this move hope to enlist the aid of the student bodies of their various colleges in the fight for repeal of the statute recently passed by the legislature...
...explanation of the letter-that a friend of Football Captain Haley's father who owed Haley Sr. money had offered to pay the debt by helping Bob Haley through Harvard, then mistakenly sought to enlist other Harvard graduates in his generous enterprise -cleared Football Captain Haley of blame but made him no less subject to the rules. Last week, he regretfully resigned. Under a Groton graduate named Shaun Kelly, elected to replace him, his onetime teammates, smartly drilled by Dick Harlow, first non-graduate football coach in Harvard history, made short work of Springfield College...
According to the DeMille theory, the Third Crusade started when a Holy Man (C. Aubrey Smith), presumably Peter the Hermit who lived 100 years earlier, toured the courts of Europe and persuaded a dozen kings to besiege Jerusalem. Richard Coeur de Lion (Henry Wilcoxon) was the last to enlist and did so for no better reason than to escape a marriage with King Philip of France's sister Alice (Katherine DeMille). This turns out to be most advantageous. Before embarking at Marseille, Richard gets a boatload of cattle and feed for his army by marrying the daughter...
...Mussolini's most scornful critics, Europe's Socialist and Communist Press, admitted that he has now fired his people with exultant zeal for conquering Ethiopia, plus hopes of absorbing Austria as a later move to ''restore the Universality of Rome!" In the general rush to enlist now sweeping Italy's languid, aristocratic youth even the Dictator's baby-faced son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, last week planned to quit his peculiarly vital desk-job as Minister of Press & Propaganda to become a flying...
...dramatically as possible as the underdog (which indeed he is), Ethiopia's smart Emperor stood for a long moment to receive his people's cheers, then disappeared behind his pink veil. Meanwhile in the U. S. the Negro Afro news service reported that blacks were swarming to enlist to fight for Ethiopia: "Chicago leads with 8,000 enrolled; Detroit comes second with 5,000; Kansas City, 2,000; and Philadelphia 1,500." This news was datelined from Manhattan and Afro's correspondent added with some scorn that Harlem had supplied only 850 recruits, "while Boston, the cradle...