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...charged up his ousting to Boss Maschke's dislike of his policy on municipal appointments and salaries, and to East Ohio Gas Co.'s dislike of his fight for lower rates. Others, less guarded, said the Maschke machine, weakened by charges of corruption, needed more spoils to stave off dissolution...
...Baron, right wing for the Boston University team, in attempting to clear from in front of the net, accidently slipped the puck by Grodberg for the first score for the Crimson. Shortly after this, Berholtz was put off the ice for tripping, and the Terriers found themselves unable to stave off the bitter onslaught of the Harvard forwards, and two goals were scored on them in rapid succession...
...dreds of students learned that this man with the sensitive Gallic features and wide-set, almost almond eyes, could stimu late their vision and would carefully avoid imposing his own or any particular technique. In his insistence on vision rather than style lay his greatness as a teacher. "Every stave in a picket fence," he wrote, "should be drawn with wit, the wit of one who sees each stave as new evidence about the fence. The staves should not repeat each other. A new fence is stiff, but it doesn't stand long before there is a movement through...
...face of such a record, it is not a question of whether Harvard needs publicity. The question is can are ailed to do without publicity? Donations she can but at a price which is prohibitive. The Harvard Athletic Association far from being the stave of the press by treating it intelligently has become in a sense, its master. And it is high time that University Hall stopped quaking at the thought of a reporter and having nothing to hide come out in the open...
Conceivably, however, in the event of Germany's default the Great Powers would find it necessary to themselves to pay up the reparations bonds, if only to stave off a crash that might disrupt the fiscal world...