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...bashful step as this taken in the right direction. Mayhap in the millennium we shall yet be allowed to witness the Braves wallop the Giants of a Spring Sunday from two to five, before we rush madly back to vespers. The legislature must be undergoing a reaction from the arid days of prohibition, and we are again to feel the personal liberty so long lost, in search of which our Pilgrim ancestors came to Massachusetts...
There will be offered next year to any student of the University a prize of $100 for the best essay upon any subject relating to the resources, people, history, development, or relations of the Argentine Republic; for example, immigration, agricultural evolution, railroad extension. Drago, Sarmiento, possibilities of the central arid section, the sugar industry of Tueuman foreign trade conditions, and the Chilean boundary dispute. All manuscripts should be left at the office of the Secretary of the Faculty on or before...
...used aright, and if it is misused or if it causes the owner to be so puffed up with pride as to make him misestimate the relative values of things it becomes a harm and not a benefit. There are a few things less desirable than the arid cultivation, the learning and refinement which lead merely to that intellectual conceit which makes a man in a democratic community like ours hold himself aloof from his fellows and pride himself upon the weakness which he mistakes for supercilious strength...
Forum--"The Present Industrial Position of the U. S.," by Henry Gannett '69; "The Problem of a Pure Milk Supply," by D. H. D. Chapin '71; "Reclaiming the Arid Southwest," by R. M. Barker...
...States should be increased." Its speakers argued that the extended borders of this country could not be properly defended, in case of war, by an army of 25,000 men. They showed that by raising this number to 30,000, the expense would be increased only six per cent, arid that the added number of men would make possible the battalion formation, in which a large number of new men could be added at any time without trouble or confusion...