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...pleasant to be beaten continuously but it is a good thing for Harvard if it will awaken the undergraduate body to a realization of what is wrong there. Graduates who know the West realize that the stupid toryism which is putting New England on the toboggan industrially, for years with few and short intervals has had its dead hand on Harvard athletics. If intercollegiate sports are a good thing get the men who can teach you to win your share of contests. There is no virtue in any qualification other than the ability to win in a sportsmanlike manner...
...franc teetered sickeningly last week, plunged from 31½% to the dollar to 35 1/3, steadied, gathered strength, skyrocketed to 30¾%. Though explanations were many, two facts stood out sharply. Just before the franc's toboggan, Finance Minister Peret was obliged to announce that pourparlers for definitely funding the Franco-British debt had broken down between himself and Chancellor Winston Churchill of the British Exchequer at London. Conversely, the franc rose as soon as the French Cabinet and the Bank of France announced, after M. Peret's return to Paris from London, that the French Government would, if necessary, employ...
...next points which Major Beith discussed were the tendencies of the stage today, "The question is not whether the stage is better or worse," he said, "but whether it is worse than usual. The stage has followed the course of a toboggan shoot since the time of Greek drama. In England, even Shakespeare and his contemporaries could not bring it back to that level. Playwrights and actors were not recognized socially until. Sir Henry lrving was knighted 20 years ago. England's stage is just recovering from the blow dealt it by the reaction after Cromwell and the Reformation...
...Morgan & Co. announced on behalf of the British Government that cessation of the War-time policy of "supporting the pound" had been ordered. Sterling, long held at about $4.75, at once started a long toboggan which ended at $3.18 on Feb. 4, 1920. In the next two years the pound twice reached $4.00 and over only to fall back again. In 1922, a genuine advance began that ended at $4.72 in February, 1923. The invasion of the Ruhr, British flight of capital and fear of the Labor Party brought sterling down to $4.20 again last January. Since that time, adoption...
...short weeks of vacation have broken the thread of students habits--if one had them. Upon the golf links at Pinehurst, upon the sands at Miami, on the toboggan at Lake Placid, or in the quiet comfort of the family fireside, the Muses whispered in faint and unreal tones; Kant's "Critique" somehow seemed impertinent logic. But now the holidays are over. The dirty stop of Cambridge streets recalls a reality not to be doubted...