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Another department where speed shows is in punt runbacks. The average Cornell runback was nearly 17 yards, the opposition's average a pawky 12. It takes fast linemen to get down and make the blocks and fast halfbacks to carry the ball for a team to compile an average of just under 17 yards per return...
...everybody can expect some mighty fine football when the home season opens at 2 p.m. this afternoon. Cornell, a team which is rated first in the East and among the top ten in the nation, will provide the opposition, and if speed, depth, and coordination mean anything it could make a messy homecoming for the Crimson...
...bitterly attacked the modern American novel as something "stone dead" and condemned the entire movement of naturalism in American literature since Dreiser. He claimed that modern American writers had "taken the cast-off rags of James Joyce and tricked out their prose in them" as a last attempt to make their books seem meaningful...
...York statute prohibits teachers who advocate violent overthrow of the government. But since no court of law has yet decided that any particular group preaches revolution, the Legislature figured it had better write a decision of its own. So it passed a law ordering the Board of Regents to make up a list of "subversive" organizations, whose members could not teach in New York public schools...
Warshaw's notes are marked "discussion" at this point. One delegate arose and said he believed "it must have been a member of the minority who had done it, because the incident provided an excuse to make an official statement and call unfavorable attention to the delegation." Warshaw parenthetically remarks that the girl promised without qualification that the required statement would be given only to the State Department. The notes continue "other people expressed the view that the incident was provoked for the purpose of giving the embassy a pretext for entering the delegation and investigating its activities. Others claimed...