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Although a final solution has not been reached, it seems doubtful that both sides will ever be completely happy. The editors will feel uneasy because the conflict is apt to be solved on legal rather than on moral grounds. A legal decision would overlook the original cry of the Texan--"The Texan cannot yield. To do so would be to deny the principle of a campus free from coercion...
...varsity hockey team's chances of receiving a return invitation to the NCAA championships in Colorado got a substantial boost from Saturday's victory over Boston College. Coach Cooney Weiland remarked yesterday that if the Crimson wins its four remaining games, "I don't see how they can overlook...
Over Sherwood's desk the group photographs were of Shakespeare, Dante, Goethe, Keats, Byron, Shelly, Longfellow, Gilbert, Tennyson, Poe and others, but right in the center was an enlarged picture of Robert Emmet Sherwood that nobody could possibly overlook. Above my piano I had an equally large picture of music publisher Powers, surrounded by photographs and prints of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Sullivan, Wagner, Bizet, Liszt and others. Sherry and Powers associated only with the best. Nights when our shows were produced we would get over to the "Pudding Theatre" ahead of time and see that the folders holding the scores...
Occasionally the University's proudly indifferent student body takes notice of its Student Council--but usually only when the campus politicos make a very obvious mistake. This year's council has had its share of errors, but it is unfair to overlook its accomplishments while criticizing its failings. While scurrying about advising the administration, foreign students, and freshman, the Council did somehow neglect to keep its own little corner completely tidy. Because of ineptitude traceable to both the Council and the Bursar's Office, the Council was able to collect only one hundred dollars of the three thousand pledged...
...week, before he was permitted to tangle with Philadel phia Toughie Joe Rowan in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, New York boxing commissioners studied his record care fully, reminded themselves that he had beaten such rough customers as Joey Maxim, Paddy Young and Chuck Spieser, and decided to overlook their rule against boys under 20 going ten rounds...