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...importance of the Ames Competition is not so much that one club has finally emerged from the welter of round-robin debates after a three-year period of trial cases. It lies more in a recognition of the part the Law Clubs have played in the Law School's curriculum. The value of practical forensic discussion is readily attested by the interest of prominent lawyers in the "straw" decision handed down by leading justices of the nation serving as arbiters in the final arguments. The definite need of practical experience combined with legislative theory is well filled by the Ames...
...point, around which not so great a welter of discussion has been raised, is the longevity of college athletes, to which the report adds valuable information. Their findings that the sportsman will live no longer than his non-competing classmate and not as long as the Phi-Beta Kappa bear out to a large degree the statements of the I. C. A. A. A. A. on the subject, which were published last year. The statistics themselves, however, must naturally have been compiled from the generations before the turn of the century, and cannot reflect the increased medical supervision, intelligent coaching...
...welter of questions to be settled on the banks of the Charles, not the least is the problem of the number of meals to be eaten in the houses and the charge to be imposed. The Harvard CRIMSON views the change which the University will make for meals as "contrary to an ancient Harvard policy and bound to arouse opposition from all those who prize this tradition of individualism and non-interference." And elsewhere a former Harvard man expresses the opinion that the charge per week virtually says: "Unless you are rich and can waste money, you must...
...welter of comment, criticism and suggestion which has attended the definite announcement of the details of the House Plan, the actual physical structures of the two new Houses have naturally not come in for much attention, due to the greater importance of the mechanics and personnel of their organization...
...support for his cabinet further to the right than his own party would stand for. Frenzied, he rushed to the telephone and rang M. Briand's number, rang it again and again, drew his own conclusions when he got no answer? such at least was his story. In a welter of rage he then drafted a letter informing President Doumergue that he could not form a cabinet...