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...half Coach Tolbert's players held the lead by a scant one point margin, only to have it vanish under a determined red and grey comeback early in the second session. The visitors' attack, led by the sensational Eager began to function with telling effect, and the gap between the two scores increased steadily till at mid-period the Engineers enjoyed a commanding advantage. At this point, with ten minutes to spare began a rally which put the two fives on an even basis by the end of the game. Four of the five minutes of the over-time period...
...order that Phi Beta Kappa may enjoy equally with other organizations the respect of the law, let the first forty policemen of every city be elected to membership. Immediately a brotherly affection will spring up between the police and the students. The old feeling of mutual distrust will vanish and hitherto embarrassing situations will become matters between friends...
...College Office will give special finals beginning next Saturday for the men going to the Fourth O. T. C. and the June under-age camp will naturally not bring forth a unanimous chorus of jubilation from those who will have to take them. They would obviously prefer to vanish from Cambridge without going through the tortures of these tests. It would not be possible nor right, however, for the Office to distribute credit for the year broadcast to such a large number of men without examining them as long as our scheme of education is based on the examination system...
...Persians being dead, their laws are not worth the traditional scrap of paper. So the dulators of our present laws should not exercise in part an authority which they ceased generations ago to exercise in spirit. The Blue Laws may well be stricken with blue lightning, and vanish in blue smoke...
Americans are deeply concerned in the struggle being waged across the ocean. They see old civilizations crumble, ideals in which they trusted vanish. In the work of restoration this nation will have a great part. College students in particular are beginning to realize that the responsibility will rest upon their generation, and that the task of reconstruction must enlist the knowledge and experience of educated...