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Although perhaps a trific early for jubilation or hosannas, the news of the presentation of the American peace pact at Buenos Aires comes as a distinct omen for good and warrants further hope that the Pan-American conference will come out with something tangible to its credit. Too often in the past have the hopes of waiting nations been reduced to disillusionment through months of selfish quarrelings and too many times have delegations repacked their luggage to trail home empty-handed. Economic conferences, disarmament conferences, treaty revision conferences, battleship parleys, tariff discussions all have been proposed, all have been acclaimed...
...Harvard Stadium three weeks ago Charles Francis Adams, onetime Secretary of the Navy and Harvard Alumnus, wore a necktie striped with the Navy's blue & gold, watched Navy beat Harvard 20-to-13. Thinking the necktie a good omen, he sent it airmail to Rear Admiral Emory Scott Land, Chief of the Bureau of Construction & Repair, who wore it to the Army-Navy game, saw the midshipmen beat the Army...
...virgin at Winter Carnival, Harvard must prove that one can be virtuous and get away with it. The atmosphere is right for success. Since his arrival last fall Coach Harlow has inspired respect and confidence. The student body has refused to see in a series of defeats any permanent omen. This season the Boston newspapers have been very considerate, especially for Boston newspapers. There is every hope that the Dartmouth game will prove Harlow's Battle of the Marne, and the burden to be born by the undergraduates is as important as that of the team itself...
Sure enough, last week Herex's home circulation had risen by 4,000, a possible good omen for new Publisher Emanuel Levi, who is going from the Louisville Courier-Journal to make the Herex hum (TIME, March...
...Democratic candidates. The part of the Postmaster General was to serve, in anything but silence, as the donkey's head. As chairman of both State and National Democratic Committees, he was confident that Democrats would elect a majority of the Assembly which, in turn, would be an omen of Democratic victory everywhere...