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...Stadium's dilapidation. Some pained group of alumni might even ask for a retraction. But undergraduates with their happy indifference will do better to take Time for the rusty little organ it is and discard its serious avowals of truth for truth's sake as but another symptom of their wondrous merry mood...
Sport writers, men in the street, other students of American folk-lore have taken great pleasure in talking about a lack of spirit at Harvard. They take a sadistic delight in pointing to every defeat on the athletic field as a symptom of an ever decreasing loyalty on the part of Harvard men, and even hint that the doctrine of overemphasis was invented merely to save the trouble of organized cheering. How upsetting it must be to the followers of conventional doctrines to have President Little of Michigan throw the full force of his opinion onto the other side...
...symptom of the status of Agriculture often relied upon by observers are the earnings of the International Harvester Co., whose customers are farmers one and all. Since 1921 and 1922, when it slumped with Agriculture into deficits, International Harvester's earnings have been...
...Florida Chamber of Commerce asked local candidates for Congress to sign a pledge to work for U. S. tariffs on tomatoes and such like. "The principle of protective tariff has been established through the years as a national policy," said the Florida Chamber of Commerce. Many a similar symptom has been observed lately, pointing toward the Republicanization of historically Democratic Florida...
...analogy, or at worst a similarity. If education makes it possible for these foreign students to speak comprehensible English, it has one point in favor of its finally producing the mutual understanding among peoples, so long desired, so slow to come. Not that Mussolini's sword-shaking is a symptom of insufficient linguistic knowledge; still, be never had the opportunity afforded by model assemblies of the League of Nations. All in all, there are possibilities in this sort of meeting. There is one great defect, however; the model assemblies can offer no model Alps to amuse bored delegates...