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...lately not to find in your columns any editorials directed against the reversal of the University's policy of lessening its overemphasis on intercollegiate athletics. Especially exoteric is this omission in view of recent announcements of the restoration of formal spring football practice. The appointments of a Notre Dame grid hero, and a professional athletic to the coaching staff would also seem to be taken a reversal of the University's previous stand. Let us hope that these are not indications of the new administration's attitude...
...players were put through the usual calisthenics, and drill on fundamentals, and then worked on passes and punts. Coach Casey then lined the grid-men up for a short stationary scrimmage and concentrated on the carrying out of assignments. Teamwork was considerably improved and the backfield seemed to click much better than in previous practices...
...outdoors for the blessing of a special new shrine for motorists. The shrine is a chromium-plated Cadillac radiator frame set in a rock garden. A chromium-plated cross surmounts the radiator-cap and a St. Christo pher medal supplants the Cadillac insignia. A bulletin board replaces the radiator grid...
...HENRY MORGAN-W. Adolphe Roberts-Covici, Friede ($3). Buccaneers were originally harmless Caribbean creatures, so named from their hunter's trade of smoking meat on a boucan (grid), but that was before Henry Morgan became their Admiral-in-Chief. By that time (1667) they had found other, more dangerous fish to fry; some of them were no better than pirates. In Morgan's early career he was not much better himself: he served a bloody apprenticeship against the Spaniards in Hispaniola and Granada, quitted himself so like a buccaneer that he was elected Admiral. Jamaica's Governor...
...Imported fuel oil, lubricating oil. gas oil and kerosene will pay another penny, bringing the tax to 9d a gallon. Here was a tax that touched every thatched cottage, for despite the growing grid of high tension lines in Britain, the average rural house is still lamplit...