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...with this enterprise except that it allowed the distribution of the handbills at the same time as the morning CRIMSON, a paid service which it has extended before. It has no sympathy with the sensationalism of the protest or with the injection of the question of various religions. To heighten the agitation with the emotion of sectarianism is only to disrupt any united protest that might be achieved and to obscure the practical aspect by a cloud of bias, raised because of the irritation of a delicate subject...
...Ontario and others should not eventually be worked into the arrangement. Over and above the fact that it would serve to rejuvenate collegiate hockey in Canada which has been swept aside by the professional and semi-professional interest, the introduction of Canadian hockey into American rinks would serve to heighten the competition in general and to make the game even better by virtue of the contact with Canadian techniques and enthusiasm. --The Dartmouth
THERE are certain events that are of themselves too dramatic for man to dramatize. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo with all its implications is so tremendous that any novel must of necessity diminish rather than heighten its effect. It is not a clever plot: nor is it a highly emotional tour de force. No single imagination can capture in fiction its massive significance...
...features of General Manager Cliff Henderson's program went far to heighten public interest: the engagement of European crack airmen for an acrobatic "Olym-piad"; the revival of free-for-all speed racing in the Thompson Trophy Race. The latter event promised to resolve into a battle between Travelair Mystery S's, flown by Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks and Lieut. Jimmy H. Doolittle, and the Marine Corps entry, a special Curtiss Hawk with Conqueror motor, piloted by Capt. Arthur H. Page, winner of the Curtiss Marine Trophy Race...
Speeches at the luncheon were ostentatiously decreed "secret"' by M. Briand, perhaps to heighten press curiosity. Copious "leaks" revealed however that statesmen-guests representing Belgium, Poland, Chechoslovakia, Jugoslavia and Rumania ?the allies of France?said that they would favor establishment of a ''United States of Europe" in the form of a federation both political and economic. The Germans, Spanish, Dutch and Scandinavians wanted a purely economic "U. S. E." The British, Italians, Hungarians and Albanians were understood to have taken an attitude courteous but noncommittal. Finally "between a pear* and some cheese" M. Briand rose. Would they all authorize...