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...Another contrast between the English and American sportsman lies in the greater sense of personal discipline of the former", declared Henry. "One often hears that English athletes are surprisingly lax about training, but on that point I disagree. True, ale may be in evidence at an Oxford training table, but it is taken in small quantities, and in other respects the Englishman is more fastidious than the American...
From the opening whistle the floor work of the Crimson tossers was erratic and they were unable to profit at the expense of the lax guarding of Holy Cross. The first part of the initial period was close and hard fought although neither team displayed much real basketball ability. Toward the end of the period Holy Cross developed an offensive with which the University men were unable to cope. They gradually forged ahead to a 12 point lead and the half closed with the score...
...alien passengers coming to the United States are in possession of proper travel documents and the failure of an alien passenger to present upon arrival the appropriate visa, or re-entry permit, places the steamship company under a penalty of $1000. You can understand that if the Government is lax in requiring the steamship companies to comply with the provisions of the laws relat ing to the documentation of passengers that it would seriously interfere with the administration of the immigration laws. Miss Komarmicka apparently could have secured without difficulty the appropriate documents had the steamship company used but ordinary...
...Much gossip of the supposed lax conduct of college students has no doubt reached you. During the past two years has there been any noticeable increase in this gossip? Do you believe the gossip to be founded on fact? If not, how do you account...
...such distinction was deserved. The Rockefeller men had reported 711 disorderly houses within a mile of Mayor Smith's office and no one was astonished when Mayor Smith's police commissioner, Frank H. Croul, resigned rather than let it be thought that his department had been excessively lax, indulgent or possibly bribed with enormous sums. Mayor Smith called a meeting of civic leaders and city officials. Among those who attended, with her friend Mrs. William Butler of the local W. C. T. U., was Mrs. Henry Ford. To Mayor Smith's dismay, Mrs. Butler arose, denounced...