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...feeling of the undergraduates. To deny them the privillege of petition was hardly the way to win them over to the side of the Administration. Nor was the affair at N.Y.U. dealt with in a much more intelligent fashion. The Student Senate, apparently determined at last to assert itself on a controversial question where the Daily had taken the wrong side, discontinued the publication of the paper. This sort of dictation was of course intolerable as the strike and mass meetings indicated...
Senator Robinson (angrily)- ... I still assert with all the power and emphasis at my command that it is the duty of the Senate of the U. S. to go forward and do business and not make a pitiable and contemptible aspect of itself...
...about time that much of the supercilious and nasty comments of the too effete, too well-bred gentry were answered. These gentlemen assert, with a mildly bored, slightly patronizing, very assured air, that all movies are bad, and the sooner one learns it the better. That is a great deal less than true, and it should be crushed with the ineluctable persistency of Mr. Theodore Dreiser pursuing a liberal idea. The "Match King" and "He Learned About Women" are two of two-hundred-and-eight movies which will be produced at the University Theater in the year beginning January ninth...
Admitting frankly that their gyroscopes do not stop seasickly pitching, Sperry engineers assert: "There is just one available practical procedure for stopping pitching and that is to change the course of the ship," tacking her back & forth about 20°. With an unstabilized ship, tacking against a heavy sea would increase the roll. With gyros correcting her roll and tacking correcting her pitch a ship need not slow down in heavy weather. By her greater speed she will more than regain, according to Sperry tests, the time and distance she loses by tacking, estimated at about 15%. To make this...
...true national policy rather than destructive nationalism, no progress is possible. As Sir Arthur Salter sees it, the world is full of governments who fail to govern, if they are to save themselves from destruction they must rid themselves of the dictation of particular private interests and once again assert their authority in the interests of the whole...