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Shooting a belated, last-period penalty, Joe Johansen finally gave the Freshman soccer team a victory over the stubborn Tufts yearlings, 1-0 yesterday on the Business School field...
...produced a unit which, despite injuries, should be able to put up a stubborn fight for a full 60 minutes today. Holy Cross, Dartmouth, and Army have all defeated Harvard but none of them have stampeded...
...Sweringen Brothers proposed to escape an interest default by swapping this prior preferred for the coupons on some Alleghany bonds. To put over the plan the Van Sweringens had to resort to the courts where under Section 77B of the Bankruptcy Act a two-thirds majority can coerce a stubborn minority. Meantime the Alleghany "when issued" stock dropped from $30 per share...
...Lamentable indifference", if not stubborn resistance, was met on every hand. But black as the prospects for a college seemed in 1692, an amazing reversal was just around the corner...
Like the entrenched meanders about which he so amusingly lectures Professor Mather realizes that at times a complete change of direction is the only available way in which to make progress possible. In forsaking the picturesque program of stubborn resistance, he and his fellow-opponents of the Teachers Oath Bill are taking a line of action which promises to be a much more practical solution of the problem at hand...