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Almost universal undergraduate support and a closely knit organization are the most prominent characteristics of Princeton intra-mural athletics when contrasted with the present House sports program at Harvard. When a Princeton man gives up a weekend in New York in order to play in an inter club hockey game, as has actually been known to happen, it shows that there is an enthusiasm present which the House system has so far been unable to arouse...
...various field of concentration which will go to make up the Crimson Confidential Guide appears. In every sense the Anthropology Department lends itself to the lead-off position in the series, not only because of its alphabetical priority, but because it is in general one of those closely knit and efficient units that form the academic body of which Harvard is justly proud. There are short-comings, to be sure,--and these are frankly dealt with in the article,--but, by and large, Anthropology is a pleasure to those who go into it, even if its specialized appeal make...
...fitting time to settle a bitter strike is not on a fine fresh morning, nor on a sultry afternoon. It is after the shades of night have fallen, when fatigue and strain have weakened the obstinacy of men, and peace, like sleep, comes to knit up the raveled sleeve of contention. In all respects but one the settlement of the Chrysler automobile strike was thus fitting. After 9 o'clock the evening of the eleventh day of negotiation, Governor Frank Murphy emerged from a smoke-filled office at Lansing to announce that agreement had been reached. Shortly before midnight...
...extent of life and death, has failed to check runaway inflation. But whether or not the United States is standing on the brink of a precipice, any control, except for direct monetary efforts, "must mean a personal government of relatively unrestrained power". Backed by the dictation of closely knit labor armies and freed from restraint by a judiciary stripped of its independence, the office of President might be an enviable one in a few years --and one where angels would fear...
Like those expert penmen who can inscribe the Lord's Prayer on the back of a stamp, Author Graves has written a whole close-knit modern comedy on the back of his. He has fun with his story, and so do readers, unless they are the kind who must have sugar on their salad. Idealists should think twice about reading The Antigua Stamp; realists will quite possibly read it twice. For readers who are accustomed to find their way quickly to the side of the angels, it may be a shock to discover that in this book there...