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...Ulenmen the contest tonight should be little more than a warm-up for the highly anticipated meet with Dartmouth on Saturday night. Only Soltysiak in the breastroke, Paulsen in the 220-yard free style and Gath in the dive may be counted on to offer any competition for the high flying Crimson tankers...
Coach Hal Ulen will send his Varsity swimmers against Greenwood Memorial tomorrow night at 8:45 o'clock in the Indoor Athletic Building in what amounts to a warm-up meet for the crucial Brown contest scheduled to take place next Wednesday night...
This afternoon, however, the warm-up session changes into the real McCoy with a veteran Milton Academy squad prepared to take the Freshmen over the ropes if given the chance. This will be the test of the boys' absorption of Skip's coordinating efforts, and of their own teamwork ability. If the two week holiday layoff does not result in a complete universal of form, the nine games which follow, culminating in the Yale contest on March 8, should not prove out of reach...
Hitler obviously cannot let Mussolini lose in Albania and Libya. The former campaign, planned as a pushover, was to have been only the warm-up for a much larger Axis drive into the Near East conducted in the usual Hitler manner: politics backed by power. The thrust into Egypt, even if not successful in capturing Suez, was at least to occupy Britain's full strength in the Near East while other Axis victories were won northeast of Suez. Now both shows had not only flopped but threatened to cost the Axis dear in power and prestige. Reports began flowing...
...very spirit of the holiday has been damaged. An undergraduate wishing to spend a day of prayer and reunion around the family turkey in New York will find he is a week too late. If he wants to use his Thursday as a warm-up for the Yale week-end, he is forced to go to classes on the twenty-third. And when, a week later, he bangs on the door of Sever or Emerson, he will be refused admittance--refused the centuries-old tradition of study treasured by Harvard...