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...seriously considering taking up long-distance swimming in a big way. It is one branch of athletics I have not specialized in before. I became interested in it seriously for the first time at the Olympic Games. It awakened a latent ambition to do something real in that sphere...
Perfect justice in the public recognition of merit is as impossible in the academic sphere as it is in the world at large. Nevertheless, any formal recognition which obviously falls short of a reasonable degree of justice is bound to lose much of its meaning. This has been the case with Phi Beta Kappa elections. The award of Phi Beta Kappa keys based wholly or mainly on course grades has rightly, been criticized, for course grades are a superficial criterion of intellectual capacity. It is recognized that general examinations and honors theses are far more adequate tests of intelligent scholarship...
...send sterling to a new low and further injure world trade. In justice to Great Britain, and to be on the safe side of our own interests, a moratorium would be desirable. In any case, the most important decisions lie beyond the ideas of March and outside the sphere of the single forthcoming payment...
...League is on trial," said President de Valera. "There is a suspicion abroad that little more than lip service is being paid to the fundamental principles upon which the League was founded. There is a suspicion that the action of the League in the economic sphere can be paralyzed by the pressure of national interests. There is a suspicion, gentlemen, that if the hand that is raised against the Covenant of the League is sufficiently strong it can smite with impunity...
...rather surprised that the CRIMSON has not seen fit to comment on the proposed closing of Widener Library at six. Such a topic would seem to come under its sphere of action...