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...sakes and thought provoking. Starting with J. H. Robinson's "The Mind in the Making," they include works by such varied authors as Lenin, Walter Lippman, President Lowell, and John Stuart Mill. For a man in college to cover such a list means to know what some of the keenest minds of the world have thought about the relations between a state and its citizens, and thus to pave the way for intelligent opinions upon the problems that confront his own generation...
Because the British amateur championship was the only major golf event which Bobby Jones had never won, because he privately admitted that to win it was his keenest ambition, because no matter how things might come out he was obviously the best golfer entered, critics in their despatches and sport followers in their talk discussed last week's tournament from a standpoint of "Jones against the field." But few experts figured that he was sure to win. Even the greatest golfer in the world must have a bad round now and then, and in any tournament where five days...
Hanover, N.H., March 14--In the annual balloting held at Dartmouth today the senior class of 459 showed its disapproval of the Eighteenth Amendment, only 50 voting in a tolerant manner toward it. According to the ballot Yale is the Green's keenest rival and favorite college after Dartmouth, with Harvard placing second...
...keenest resentment felt by the CRIMSON, it seems, was to the informal tone of the letter. It may have been a mistake to address in this way a Harvard undergraduate, jealous of his natural right to flunk out of college. He immediately suspects that there is a hidden significance--to be dreaded--as the CRIMSON has shown. Perhaps Professor Coolidge would have done better to make the letter coldly formal. That the CRIMSON took the attitude it did is an indication of the way any attempt to promote informality between the student body and the faculty, in the Houses...
...give battle to the Crimson entries. Harvard, with an easy triumph over Holy Cross and Brown, and the Hanoverians, with the Syracusan scalps in their belts, have an even chance to win according to the rival coaches. Whatever the final outcome may be, there is little doubt that the keenest competition will be the order...