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...French '29, captain of last fall's Crimson team, was not enthusiastic over the change. "It is unquestionably good," he remarked, "in that it will make the game a great deal fairer. Our team last season can recall occasions when an unfortunate fumble changed the whole score. The best team in the world is apt to lose through some unlucky break. The new rule will lessen such occurrences. But," he added, "it does so by sacrificing excitement. It seems to me that the present tendency calls for an excessive removal of chance. Breaks have a real place in a football...
...millionaires of America, though much in the public eye, are in a microscopic minority, and it is no fairer to judge [American women] by the wives of millionaires than it would be, for example, to generalize about Englishwomen from the riders in the Row or the owners of boxes at the Opera...
...five day scrutiny of outgoing mail from the Brattle Square Post Office this week revealed telling figures as to the locations of those members of the fairer sex who receive letters from Harvard...
...divisional examinations should be largely oral, thus giving a fairer test. Many more good tutors are needed to make the Tutorial System a real success. At present there is not time for the student to get the most out of the Tutorial System, because of the regular course requirements. Tutorial work should take the place of course works and credits be given for the same. The tutor's report should be considered in granting degrees. Perhaps only 12 or even fewer courses should be required. Seniors could then be free to actually gain the most the Tutorial System...
...during three Administrations. His record of financial diplomacy and impartial advice has won him the confidence of all but professional farm agitators. In his opinion, there would have been no Farm Problem this year but for the election. McNary-Haugenites could not, in his belief, have hoped to fix "fairer" prices than the prices currently obtaining. None knows better than Banker Meyer the disasters farmers have faced, but he regards farmers who had not recovered from post-War depression as "the inevitable aftermath." No price-fixing laws would save them...