Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the two week break in training following the football game with Yale next Saturday, about 11 more men are expected to report. These gridmen will be led by Capain Gorge Ford and will include such veterans as George Roberts, Russ Allen, and Ralph Pope. A strong Sophomore group will likewise turn out at this time. Austie Harding, captain of last year's undefeated Freshmen, and Win Jameson will be seeking places on the forward line and such stalwarts as Chink Fearon, Charlie Houghton, and Tubber Carstein will try to work into the lineup on the defense...
...report of the concentrators in the field of music last year revealed two serious weaknesses in the Music Department: one of these is being successfully corrected this year, but the other is even more apparent than before. The Department was criticized for offering a variety of courses, several of which were justly described of "snaps", which covered a considerable amount of ground, but left unnecessary and harmful gaps in what should have been a unified whole. This year a new course, Music 1, combines some of these in a general survey course: inasmuch as there are three hundreds members...
...actually become on his 50th birthday last week required a review of the supreme humiliations to which the Nanking Government has even lately submitted. Not to mention Japan for the moment, it was humiliating that Admiral William Harrison Standley, Chief of U. S. Naval Operations, found it necessary to report officially in 1934 "China continues in a state of disruption, with internal strife, including Communist and bandit activities, engaging the wholesale attention of Chinese Government Forces." At this time 30,000 Japanese soldiers in North China had thoroughly beaten 300,000 Chinese soldiers, had approached within five miles of Peiping...
...this, together with the inevitable reaction of the Chinese people against the humiliations imposed by Japan, has worked out so nicely that discerning Frank Hedges, Far-Easter for the Washington Post, recently was able to report that Dictator Chiang now heads "the strongest Central Government in that country since the death of the Empress Dowager, Tzu Hsi"*and has "succeeded in uniting the Chinese people in a way that has not been known for centuries." Japanese suspicions of China are always dire and last week Tokyo commentators opined that Dictator Chiang can only be taking his present strong line...
Famed for its early voting is the town of New Ashford, Mass., which has been first in the U. S. to count and report its handful of ballots in every Presidential election since 1916. Such promptness and its attendant national publicity have been carefully fostered for New Ashford by the Berkshire Eagle, published in Pittsfield about twelve miles away. Last week the newspaper, in danger of losing its prize story to Radio, saved it by an ingenious scheme...