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...Taft proposal seems perfectly compatible with the "get tough" policy. It remains a question, though, whether getting tough in this way will remove the hope of attaining international cooperation. If a stiffer attitude towards Russia appears to be justified, the Taft proposal for withdrawing the Baruch plan raises the problem of how tough to get. The removal of such a facet of international organization as atomic energy seems in effect a pocket-veto by the United States of world cooperation. Unqualified use of the toughness policy may result in the destruction of the United Nations pattern...
Making the competition stiffer will be entrants from such strong outfits as Williams and Rutgers as well as the eight regular teams of the Eastern circuit. According to Coach Ulen these two should finish second and third in the informal team totals behind the Yale powerhouse...
...Freshman foil teams saw action against the Exonians, winning by 7 to 2 and 5 to 4 scores. Formidable Worcester Academy swordsmen will put the Yardlings to a stiffer test Wednesday in the Indoor Athletic Building...
...Green in its western tour, the gentlemen in the know have singled out the Ithacans and the Varsity as the clubs to beat this season. Coach Bill Barclay's indoctrination into Ivy League play will thus come as a formidable test; his charges are not likely to meet stiffer opposition anywhere in the circuit...
...Thus far, there have been few comparative scores on which to base predictions, and Saturday night's Cornell game will be an excellent start. It seems safe to assume that the Varsity has too much strength for Yale and Columbia, but the other clubs in the league should provide stiffer competition. Harvard could conceivably finish anywhere from first to fifth, but they will have to play consistently high grade basketball to push Penn and Cornell for the crown...