Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four University crews have been retained as a result of the work on the river last week. There has been no attempt to grade the crews except according to height and weight as was done last week, but some of the crews have a larger number of veterans than others. Captain Appleton has been shifted from stroke to bow and is now rowing on Crew S, stroked by R. C. Wolcott...
There always has been an Irish Question. As Disraeli said, "It may the the Pope today and potatoes tomorrow, but there will always be an Irish Question,--and a burning one!" What has been definitely accomplished, and what the whole world,--except that international nuisance, the Professional Irishman,--celebrates today, it that the Irish Question is at last left to the Irishmen themselves to settle, without direction from the outside. Even the spirit of the more enlightened British administrations, inspired by the idea embodied in Cromwell's proclamation of 1649, that Ireland was to receive all the benefits...
...armed bands of strikers has been by the use of troops, and in the pitched battle which invariably ensued numbers of the soldiers had to be killed--an unnecessary bloodshed. Now when a commando is discovered, an airplane can drop bombs on it without endangering the life of anyone except the strikers. Of course such a method could not be used in a strike in a city, but for a disturbance such as this in South Africa it seems to be ideal, and if it succeeds in breaking the strike it will have won its spurs with distinction...
...still more in the financial problem the committee has arranged with a New York bank to buy the full number of francs on payment of 25 percent of the amount. The price will cover all traveling expenses, tuition fees, theatrical performances, accommodations and meals, and all tips except on the Atlantic voyage...
...bands of strikers has been by the use of troops, and in the pitched battle which invariably ensued numbers of the soldiers had to be killed,--an un- necessary bloodshed. Now when a commando is discovered, an airplane can drop bombs on it without endangering the life of anyone except the strikers. Of course, such a method could not be used in a strike in a city, but for a disturbance such as this in South Africa it seems to be ideal, and if it succeeds in breaking the strike it will have won its spurs with distinction