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Carefully considered, however, the reparations problem seemed none too healthy. Weeks of negotiations had brought the demands of the creditors and the offers of the Germans within striking distance of each other. Comparatively slight concessions on either hand would bring about an agreement, but it was just these final concessions that seemed last week impossible to obtain...
...title of Marshal of France will be allowed to disappear by extinction of those now bearing it." Marshals Foch and Fayolle are dead. Remaining of the Marshals of France are: Joseph (Battle of the Marne) Joffre, Henri (Verdun) Petain, Hubert (North Africa) Lyauty, Louis (Balkans) Franchet d'Esperey. None of these is a young man. It will not be long before the last blue-velvet, gold-starred baton disappears from France's parade grounds. Sentimental, the Paris press mourned last week the passing of a rank which goes back to the 12th Century, which has been prefixed...
...trotting (as distinguished from running) horses, Mr. Billings brought not only a devotion to the 'breeding and racing of fine horses, but an amateur spirit extremely rare in the proverbial sport of kings. Mr. Billings raced many a trotter, controlled indeed, his own racetrack (at Memphis). But none of Mr. Billings' horses ever raced for money and at his racetrack there was no betting. For (said he) it was un fair for the wealthy sportsman, to whom money was no object, to race his horses against the average breeder who had his living to make in the racing business. Thus...
...other colleges for women by the quality of Harvard instruction available to its students and by the strong graduate character of its work, Radcliffe pauses for three days, beginning Thursday, to celebrate its past. Its first half-century of life has brought it firm establishment, academic prestige second to none among the women's colleges and a widening circle of friends. But if the college finds satisfaction in these things, it also feels that its success has given it larger responsibilities for the future. That way its eyes are turned
...waist of the crew, but most of these must await the outcome of the stroking situation before they can be settled. Several changes were made yesterday including the tryout of E. I. Millard '31, a member of the class crew squad, at No. 6 in the Jayvees. None of the present shifts can be regarded as permanent for the first and second crews may present a far different aspect on the Thames from the one now seen on the Charles. The first and second crews will be de finitely selected soon after the oarsmen have completed their last workout...