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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play throughout the game against Yale Freshmen, and he is regarded as a fine prospect. Evans and Captain Daley of the 1927 team should make a formidable pair of tackles. Victor, Theopold, and Kilgour are other likely men for this position. Dunker is the best guard in sight, but another year should mean great improvement for Daniell, C. H. Bradford, Laimbeer, and Macomber, Whellock of the 1926 Freshman team, ineligible this year, and Savory and Platt of the 1927 team are all worthy of consideration. The counter position will cause little worry with Greenough available for first-string duty...
There will be no solo trials, but each man will be required to sing several scales. The accompanists will be asked to play one piece of their own choosing and one at sight...
After almost a year's struggle in the Ruhr, France and Belgium seem to have vindicated their occupation by securing a promise from the German industrialists to make reparation deliveries to the Allies. Actually, however, the French have received nothing but a promise, and, although reparations are in sight, there are many things within the comparatively quiescent political orbits of Europe that may balk the French in realizing these German promises...
...cogs. The only solution seems to be for the educated cream of the country to for get that gentlemen are not politicians and politicians are not gentlemen, to feel that good government comes ahead of business, and to go into polities with the energy of youth and the clear sight of a real education. Then and then only will parties be reshaped and government take on that natural, national importance which it holds in England and does not hold in the United States...
...first place, the miner himself is often responsible for disaster. When a man with a lighted lamp in his cap fills paper cartridges with black powder, it is obviously his own fault if he does not remove his lamp to a safe distance. Even more gruesome is the sight of a miner tamping a highly explosive dynamite cap with his teeth. The foreman is to blame if he permits anyone to work in rooms with insufficient propping or to ride on trips of cars meant only to convey coal. If mines unsafe because of water trouble, poor roof, improper ventilation...