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...Cafe Europejska, most fashionable in Warsaw. There, amid popping champagne corks, loud Polish music and exciting Polish women, they made the crazy-quilt politics of Poland. In 1929, however, so many "Pilsudski Colonels" were called to onerous tasks of Government that cafe politics have been on the wane. Never a very good cafe politician was small, stern, intensely militant (although sartorially perfect) Col. Alexander Prystor...
Lately Adolf Hitler's strength has seemed to wane. In the German State of Oldenburg last week he waxed mightily. The election was for the local Diet, but Chancellor Heinrich Bruning of all Germany went out to electioneer against the Fascists...
Matter of fact Siamese polygamy is steadily on the wane, has been for at least two generations, and is expected to die out because increased living costs are making it difficult to support more than one wife...
...Bingham has insisted several times that intercollegiate rivalry is the basis of all college sport, and that without its stimulus, interest in athletics would wane. To what extent intramural contests can be developed will be tested in a very serious way in the next few weeks. Both in Cambridge and New Haven the sponsors of the house plan have quite definitely committed themselves to a policy of emphasizing inter-house sports. They hope that in such a way traditions, spirit, and loyalty will be developed to the advantage of the houses and that at the same time some...
...would be idle to attempt a summary in one sentence or in one paragraph of our reasons, frequently expressed in our columns during the past year, for the conviction that extra-curricular activities are at present on the wane. Individualism, lack of interest in all class elections, a decline of respect for a Varsity "P", thinning competitions for the Princetonian and Tiger, rough sledding for the Intime, the failing popularity of baseball, smaller squads in football, apathy in regard to "student government," the tremendous rise of informal sports like squash, golf, and tennis, consternation of advisory athletic committees about...