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...work on which so much stress is supposedly laid in the apportionment of honors, the administration of this group of examinations is remarkably lax. The present year offers two particularly apt examples of this, with no assurance that the efficiency will be any greater next year. The plan of holding these examinations for Seniors in the fall instead of the spring was an improvement, but unfortunately the benefit to be derived from it is much diminished by the veil of mystery that hangs over the examinations. On the one side, Seniors should be notified early in September of the exact...
...CRIMSON has criticised the happy earlessness of the University administration in its policy of releasing news. Time and again the authorities have shown themselves ignorant of publicity values, lax in their handling, and reckless of the consequences of inaccuracy and misrepresentation which are traceable directly to their sluggishness. When there is news to be given out officially, none is given; it is permitted to seep out through any one of many channels...
HARVARD 1932 ARLINGTON H. S.Crosby, Mays, Sprague, l.w. r.w., Rice, AbbottWood, Martin, c. c., Duffey, O'NeilStubbs, Lincoln, Foster, r.w. l.w., Lax, WinnCunningham, Gleason, l.d. r.d., ForbesPalmer, Bottomly, r.d. l.d., ClarkDraper, g. g., Mannin
...political head of the Internal Revenue Department, or of a separate department created for the purpose, shall always be able through Federal detectives and policemen to reach into every hamlet, and to every ward, and to every purlieu of a large city, and use the leverage of an intermittently lax and strict enforcement of the law against would-be dealers in liquor and their patrons, he will wield a sinister power, prospect of which should make anxious the friends of free constitutional government...
...anti-Catholic propaganda of the lowest type and insinuated that the G. O. P. was responsible, if not for starting it, then for not stopping it. New York City's glib and artful Mayor Walker last week suggested that the Republican-run Post Office Department was deliberately lax about letting "scurrilous slanderous" matter from "fanatical bigots" pass through the mails.* The arch-Democratic New York World reprinted bits from a widely-distributed pamphlet which said...