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...Harvard graduate is holding a position as caretaker of a small playground. He is most likely one of the following. (1) A drunkard or drug addict: (2) unusually fond of children: (3) unable to adjust to a position of responsibility: (4) a moron...
...departure in the matter of helping new students to adjust themselves to college conditions is the appointment this year of a special Faculty Board of Freshman Advisors. This Board consists of some 60 picked members of the Faculty who will have no advisees other than Freshmen. The chairman of the Board is Professor R. C. Ward, Professor of Climatology. G. W. Cram, '88, Secretary of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, is acting secretary and will supervise the office of the Board in University Hall. The Board met as a unit last May to discuss the special problems...
...discouraged, gloomy and pessimistic because the birds are on the ragged edge of oblivion. I am trying to adjust my mind to a result that seems quite inevitable. The bird-defenders hold few good cards and all the high trumps seem to be held by the bird destroyers. For years I have noted the awful annual increase in bird slaughter and for years I have dreaded the arrival of the day when the small circle of men who control game protection matters in Washington would decide that no more reductions should be made in the killing privileges of sportsmen...
...United States, but we ask that due account be taken of the real conditions, economical and financial, in which Italy finds itself, as well as of our demographic and fiscal pressure, of our national wealth, of the balance of payments and of the commercial balance, and we have to adjust to those conditions the amount, form and the time of payments...
...Stanley Durkee, should give them some satisfaction for representations they had made to him in protest against compulsory physical and military drills† They demanded reinstatement of anti-militarists dismissed by Dr. Durkee, swore to "cut" their classes a beyond the allowable number of 20 as was necessary to "adjust their rights...