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Whether "Feng the Mighty" will be permitted to shoulder this giant's burden-and incidentally to pocket Shantung-was not clear last week. At Nanking other Nationalist leaders were loath to comment; but Finance Minister T. V. Soong, brother-in-law of President Chiang Kaishek, did reveal that he has worked out a program for disbanding all but 715,000 of the new State's 1,500,000 troops. Whether some, any or all of Marshal Feng's troops would be disbanded, shrewd Dr. Soong would...
Though yesterday morning was to have been the end, so far as the CRIMSON was concerned, for the English 72 matter, letters have kept pouring into the Crimson Building in such numbers that the editor is loath to suppress what has been the most general display of interest on the part of students for some years. Many of the letters received have not seemed to shed any new light on the affairs of English 72 and of the English Department in general, but the two letters printed in an adjacent column are sober enough to warrant consideration...
What are the arguments set forth by the proponents of a greatly enlarged Stadium? And how are they being answered by those who are loath to see any radical alteration of the present amphitheatre...
Results were forthcoming, disastrous to collegiate femininity. Man was loath to walk and "co-eds" heckled with burly Jehus over the taxi fare. From the silken folds of modish dancing frocks handbags were produced at the door. Both sexes furthermore had a chance of experiencing that great American institution of the younger generation-"getting stuck"-from another angle. And at popular eating houses after the ball the reprisal was completed. Men exhausted the possibilities of the menu while their fair escorts confined themselves to the right hand side of the carte...
...France. If this long frozen source of revenue has actually begun to thaw, Frenchmen may well rejoice; but it was rumored that the Soviet Government comes once again with a fair-seeming offer, but intends to hold out once again for further credits from French manufacturers which France is loath to grant...