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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...definite misstatement of fact. The facts are: (a) The $10,000 includes all coaches' salaries as well as intercollegiate expenses. (b) Over half the members of the squads play House squash and tennis. Please charge $5000 to the Houses. (c) To retain the coaches and eliminate intercollegiate events would save not more than $1400 per year. This includes four teams: Varsity and Freshman tennis and squash. There are between 35 and 40 men on these teams. Are not the benefits they receive worth the sum involved...
This week Dr. Lynd joined the ranks of planners who hope to save men from the abyss by a big blueprint. He published a book with a startling title: Knowledge for What?* In it, Professor Lynd proposed that the U. S., having failed to get a plan from educators, preachers, politicians, businessmen or engineers, be brought to order by social scientists...
...Raydex has a simple cylindrical curve which can be polished by machine, making production some 46 times faster and correspondingly cheaper. The conventional plowshare costs $4.25, will stand three resharpenings (about 75? apiece). Four Raydex points cost only $3.40, can be thrown away like razor blades and still save the farmer money as well as the trouble of finding a smithy in these horseless days...
According to the Student Opinion Surveys and your editorial of April 14th, American students hope to save democracy by stopping Hitler. . We were supposed to have saved it in 1918. The new crop of totalitarian states stretching from Russia to Germany was the saving. Of course, if we are good myth-makers and word-twisters, we can believe in the democracy existing in Russia, Poland and Rumania today...
...damning intercollegiate competition. In the Varsity sports that remain we oppose curtailment, save in connection with shorter winter schedules. And, in the sports which we are taking from the ranks of "minor" into House, we believe that it is both possible and even fairly probable that in the future some of them might be added to the select seven. Soccer appears to have the greatest chance in this regard now, and, should participation, outside interest, and funds permit, the day may well come, perhaps soon, when soccer will be back in the intercollegiates...