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...fields are on Long Island, an hour from Manhattan rail and mail terminals. Hadley Field, at New Brunswick, N. J., is also an hour away; and the Teterboro, N. J., port is about the same time-distance. Newark, N. J., with its new, partially completed $7,000,000 port is some-what closer. All are inconvenient to reach. And that inconvenience impedes air travel and even mail service. Air mail is generally slower than train mail between Manhattan and Boston, Albany, Philadelphia or Washington...
Obviously an opinion from some source must be had on this matter. The indecision of which is leading to some-what barbaric methods of establishing title. If the victors really need and deserve a tangible reward for their triumph, well and good but let no man interfere with their efforts to lay hands upon it. If on the other had a majority hold that victory is but an abstraction more sweet because of its very lack of material symbols, let the first man who throws his weight against an upright suffer the consequences of an outraged public opinion. A spineless...
...hard to say just wherein the picture falls down, it comes so close to being truly excellent. Perhaps more than in anything else the fault is in tendency for the story to moralize, to proclaim too blatantly the some-what shopworn "I still believe in you" motif. Far be it from this reviewer to simply that that is not a good and even often necessary chord, but nevertheless it has always had the effect on him of inducing a slight shudder when it is blared forth upon the brasses...
...reading requirement in a language was generally fitted to use that language in his further college work. Some of the men who held this general opinion advocated the raising of the reading knowledge requirement to a higher standard as well as the retention of the present elementary requirement. A some-what larger number were in favor of dropping one language from the requirements and concentrating attention on the other. Many of these looked back with little pleasure on an elementary French or German course in their Freshman year from which they believed themselves to have derived little profit...
...reason for the change, which advances the show to an earlier date than any on available record, is to allow those Seniors to take part at a time which will not interfere with Divisionals, and also not to conflict with the spring sport trips. Both of these factors were some-what of a hindrance in this spring's production of "Not Now--Later...