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Here at last is something that we don't have to abolish at Dartmouth, because that we don't have any. True, we have our Palacopitus and our Occom Council. Hums are duly planned, freshman fights restrained this side of barbarism, football rallies tenderly nurtured, train concessions awarded. But all discipline is quietly and inexorably meted out over in the sanctums of the administration building, and everybody is glad of it. The Dartmouth...
...demanding that the Chancellor's party (Catholic Centrists) compose its differences over the so-called "school bill" with the People's Party, potent faction of Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann. These two parties?Catholic, Popular?comprise the main support of the coalition cabinet. They are quarreling over legislation designed to abolish Catholic instruction in the public schools...
...French cartoonists have been making pointed pictorial insinuations about the inexplicably large navy which their star-spangled Shylock is providing. In the light of this fear, it was unfortunate, perhaps typically so, that Secretary Kellogg, on the day before the signing, should propose another treaty, this time to abolish submarines, which happen to be the basis of the French navy...
Debated a resolution for amending the constitution to abolish "lame duck" sessions of Congress and presidential tenures; passed it, 65-6; sent it to the House...
...streets! . . . Salvation lies in a new currency, in severing all ties with the past! Already Belgium, Austria, Hungary and Russia have struck new coins† .... The best reason for reviving the ecu is that it would stop our people from thinking in terms of francs and would abolish forever the present distressing comparison of salaries and prices with those of pre-War days. . . . The franc, even at par (19.3?) was a ridiculously small unit which never served any purpose except to complicate bills and infest columns with fractions. ... As for that mathematical microbe the centime ($.0004) it would have been...