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Preliminary agreement on a new concession to supplant the disputed D'Arcy oil leases of Anglo-Persian Oil Co. Ltd. was reached three weeks ago (TIME, May 1). Last week came the final agreement and publication of the terms. Well satisfied, Britain's "Petrol Diplomat," tall, professorial Chairman Sir John Cadman of Anglo-Persian, slipped a copy of the new agreement in his pocket, packed his grips and flew from Beirut to Marseilles, after months of bickering, threatening, appeals to the League of Nations, the new-agreement provides: 1) The period of the concession is 60 years from...
...gross negligence on the part of the Director of Athletics and the Committee entrusted by the Harvard Corporation with the regulation and conduct of athletic sports. Should the time come when a majority of Harvard undergraduates wish to abandon training as wisely determined by years of experience and supplant instead a policy of non-training, the time for with drawal of the college from all intercollegiate sports will be at hand. --The H.A.A. News...
...create the artificial fever which makes paretics at least temporarily clear-minded. Two years ago Dr. Whitney suffered a nervous breakdown. Last week he was a patient of the Mayo Clinic. He had long wanted to abdicate his research directorship. But no one with G. E. was willing to supplant him, and President Gerard Swope would bring in no outsider. Last week President Swope made a decision, accepted Dr. Whitney's resignation as director of research, continued him as vice president in charge of the 300 scientists whom the corporation employs. Promoted to stand between those scientists and demands...
...must decline because it can only be a temporary solution. Modern industrialism is moving steadily toward organization on a larger and larger scale "which is compatible only with secure access to markets which are larger than those comprised within national frontiers". If the inevitable growth of industrialism will eventually supplant nationalism with a world order, nevertheless, as Salter points out, the immediate future may see nations drifting without leadership into a competitive system of closed national units even more dangerous than those we have today. Whether the resulting period of suffering and destruction can be avoided under the leadership...
...much more than that. It is not only the athletes themselves but the entire body of undergraduates, and most graduates, who still desire and enjoy those contests that have come to hold so large a place in American life. Whether or not inter-House or intramural sports will ever supplant them is a question. It is a question, however, that will not be answered immediately. The especial zest and flavor of excitement and interest peculiar to an intercollegiate contest will continue for some time to mean a great deal more to students and alumni, and spectators generally, than can possibly...