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Again Washington made a valiant last stand. With two out. Manager Cronin singled, went to second when Schulte drew a base on balls. Kuhel stepped to bat. A single would tie the score again. A stiffer blow could win the game. Manager Bill Terry walked over to "Pop" Luque with a worried frown. Luque scarcely noticed him. "I get heem," he promised, and turned toward the batter. Plump!- Strike one. Plump!-Strike two. Plump...
...Haverford's tent an earnest, soothing address of the sort without which no academic convocation is complete. Calling Haverford's new plan not a new goal but a new technique, he said U. S. education needs no revamping: "What the country needs is ... a moral quickening ... a stiffer backbone...
...Although stiffer in its entrance requirements than French 1, French 2 is of the same unfortunate lik. Occasional compositions in French, and an attempt briefly to survey the masterpieces of that tongue give it more appearance of coherence and raison d'etre than its unhappy companion, but the attitude of all concerned is one of absolute indifference and utter ennui...
...Suzzallo lost his job; Hartley had become Governor and got even. Under Dr. Suzzallo the University had grown, but grown expensive. Under Governor Hartley and the University's next president, Matthew Lyle Spencer, the University experienced sharp economies, a re-organization last summer (TIME, Aug. 8). Stiffer entrance requirements were designed to keep it from competing with the vocational State College in the Eastern part of Washington. This pleased opponents of mass-education; it pleased agrarian East Washington. But taxpaying Western parents, who found their children unable to get into the University, resented having to send them East...
...Asuncion, capital of Paraguay, officials admitted that Bolivian resistance in the Gran Chaco has recently grown stiffer but claimed that Fort Saavedra, in the strategic sector of the Chaco, would fall within a fortnight. Paraguay's Minister of War, Pastor Benitez. declared that half the officers and staff officers of Bolivia have been either killed, wounded or captured in the past four months. Bolivia's war department retorted that 2,000 Paraguayans had been killed in the first seven days of the attack on Fort Saavedra...