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...City Hall to talk over the traffic conditions in Harvard Square and around the Yard. Officials present at that meeting divided on the method of bettering the dangerous conditions. They sided with the University's suggestion to remove the subway rotunda from the center of the Square and to prohibit the loading and unloading of buses at that point. Another group supported the Boston Elevated Company in its desire to remove the taxi stands from the space around the rotunda platform so that the company's buses could stop at the platform...
Other new rules prohibit "diving" tackles, flying wedge formation on the kickoff, substitutions except for injury unless time-out has been called for some other reason, hard knee or elbow pads, "striking" with the hand or forearm by defense linesmen. They are the most extensive changes in football rules since 1906. By last week many U. S. colleges had tried them out in warm-up games...
...Each club shall prohibit its undergraduate members and its members-elect, meaning thereby persons notified of their election but not yet initiated, from canvassing any undergraduate before the opening of College in his Sophomore year...
...easy but it was against the latter provision that Mr. Baldwin and his colleagues fought longest and hardest. Russia is a good customer of Britain for manufactured goods. She must sell Britain something to have money to buy those goods. Finally Mr. Baldwin promised that Britain would prohibit the entry of any state-controlled commodity sold so cheaply as to destroy Dominion preference (i. e. at less than world prices). Mr. Bennett wanted the word shall used in the pledge. The British stubbornly held out for will. Cried British Delegate Lord Hailsham: "What do you think we are? Thugs whose...
...amendment which would have bound the Conference countries to abstain from the warlike bombing of civil populations, adding that he had Manchuria in mind. When Sir John Simon made two points? 1) that China and Japan are not legally at war; 2) that it would be senseless to prohibit bombing in peace time?Dr. Yen withdrew his resolution in bitter disgust...