Word: yarde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those who will want to hear Wallace as he will draw not only those who share his views, but those who disagree with them and those who do not even know what his views are. Other meeting places have been investigated, but the only feasible alternative is the Yard, and this is an extremely remote possibility as the University, citing its venerable and rigid policy, has already declined to permit the use of Widener steps...
...upon a three point resolution: (1) AVC is to continue to be the sponsor of its first forum (2) A committee chosen from those in attendance is to form another committee, composed of University and non-University groups to attempt to induce the Administration to permit use of the Yard for a Wallace rally (3) This sub-committee of the original group will help select the persons who will sit on the platform with Mr. Wallace...
...blame for Italy's being in history's junk yard? Italy's witty ex-Premier Francesco Nitti named a couple of safe scapegoats: Christopher Columbus and Niccolo Machiavelli. Machiavelli, Nitti explained, had "made us Italians out as men who are always ready to lie," Columbus was an even bigger culprit: his "indiscretion," Nitti claimed, had "shifted the axis of the world to the West," and Italy had been off the beam ever since...
Four different types of races have been scheduled, Brooks said, to appeal to men who feel that they have a specialty. There will be 50-yard races in free style, back-stroke, and breast-stroke, and a 200-yard contest free style for long distance swimmers...
...biggest job is in the south-east corner of the Yard, where three steam shovels are still excavating for the new undergraduate library. Hindered in their efforts by the recent rainstorms which transformed the pit into a small sized lake, the workmen expect to complete excavation within two weeks...