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...growing wave of criticism against the encumbent administration, Mr. Neilson, writing from the viewpoint of a Single Taxer, scores the theories advanced by Tugwell, Chase, and Soule. He writes straightforwardly and at times amusingly. It is difficult to agree with his main thesis but many of his observations are keen and his attacks spirited...
...great powers wished to fight. For this reason they restrained their respective allies. This fact indicates no influx of evangelism into European affairs; the nations simply find war inconvenient at the present moment. Therefore the League has won a great victory. When the zest for battle is again keen, however, there is no need to doubt that a suitable pretext will be found, despite the Pax Helvitiorem...
...doldrums. An athletic administration with absolute authority over finances and publicity has completely estranged all active and enthusiastic alumni interest and support in the creation and maintenance of good football at Harvard. Therefore if Mr. Bingham supported by the Boston alumni has so successfully throttled the one-time keen interest in Harvard football shown by the provincial alumni and has failed to produce a football regime of which we all can be proud, the time has arrived for a basic change in the interests which control football at Harvard...
...ever larger numbers of students work their way through college, it has become a mater of course to assist them with scholarships, loans, an employment, a policy which the public approves with democratic enthusiasm. So keen is this fetish for higher education for all at any cost, that even the government offers indigent scholars approximately a million and a half dollars monthly...
...York opera season begins in December, she will be back at the Metropolitan?not singing on the stage, but in a grandtier box on Saturday afternoons broadcasting descriptions of the operas which are to be put on the air by Lambert Co. (Listerine). Her comments are bound to be keen and intelligent. She still can sway any kind of audience...