Word: yales
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Japan the Peacemaker. Almost irrelevant to the real Chinese situation last week were screeching headlines about appeals to President Hoover and the League of Nations by Nationalist Foreign Minister C. T. Wang (Yale, 1911). In his own capital Mr. Wang was credited with having utterly bungled the Chino-Russian imbroglio. The Shanghai Council of the Nationalist Party passed a resolution of censure demanding his resignation, stigmatized him as "a rogue." His one chance lay in shrieking so vociferously about the "red menace" that the great powers would intervene...
...tumbling the Utah Aggies, 26-7. Nebraska-Big Six champions though tied by Missouri and Oklahoma-trounced eleven Iowa Statesmen made wild but not dangerous by six beatings in a row. Nebraska 31, Iowa State 12. Georgia's little bulldogs put on the snarl they wore for Yale at the start of the season. Nice passes and a fake end run made them 12, Alabama 0. Kicks were the important thing in weather that made fingers too stiff to catch passes. Stevens's leg was a shade stronger than Joyce's. Syracuse 6. Columbia 0. By beating...
William Lyon Phelps, A. B., Ph. D., A. M., Litt. D., Lampson Professor of the English Language & Literature at Yale University, Public Orator of Yale University, President of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, member of the National Institute of Arts & Letters, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, author, critic, lecturer, preacher, cheerleader,* clubman (Authors, Ends of the Earth, Fano, Pundits, Faerie Queen, Elizabethan), wrote as follows in his monthly department ("As I Like It") in Scribner's magazine for December...
...once, in front of the Yale library, led a long Yale for Poet Robert Browning...
While the University is struggling with the various phases of the House Plan, and Yale is in process of debating a similar arrangement, it is interesting to regard the somewhat analogus question with which the third member of the extinct alliance is concerning itself. At Princeton the Utility and desirability of an undergraduate center is under discussion. The situation is in some respects similar to that of Harvard. The widening gap between clubmen and nonclubmen makes for the same sort of disintegrating influence as is here ascribed to unwieldy size and minute division into cliques...