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...Last week President Hoover formally received Dr. Celeo Davila as the new Honduran Minister to the U. S. The President will have to be careful not to confuse him with Ambassador Carlos Davila of Chile, Minister Charles Davila of Rumania, Commercial Attaché Cesar Davila of Venezuela or Resident Commissioner Felix Davila of Porto Rico...
...very owlish and did nothing whatever. The French, sure of their own position, did nothing either, but took pains to be exceedingly polite. Realizing that France and Germany must come to direct terms sooner or later, the French and German delegations stayed at the same hotel, the Ritz. Junior attachés breakfasted together publicly. Swart Premier Laval and stoop-shouldered Brer Briand were always willing to see reporters. On the crucial morning of the conference Brer Briand posed amiably for reporters even though he had just gashed his cheek open while shaving. Nerves of the U. S. delegates were...
Yale men and all colleges may feel a certain satisfaction in the figures Princeton has published. But they must not attach too much importance to them by failing to balance the numbers of huge incomes against the meager which make an $18,000 average. Nor must they fail to consider the conditions within the homes and the standards of living which develop under our systems of education. Unquestionably Princeton has done as much for her sons in these respects. perhaps more. Nevertheless a consideration for the vagaries such an investigation entails will serve to illuminate its limitations. --Yale Daily News...
...Robinson to force one unless his $25,000,000 Federal food fund for Drought sufferers was accepted by the Administration. If Congress-rejected this proposal, Senator Robinson, confident of Insurgent assent, warned Republican leaders: "You can stick your appropriation bills up-on the shelf." Later they helped Senator Robinson attach his relief plan to the Interior Department appropriation bill where they vowed it would stick in spite of President Hoover's objections...
...gather that if Harvard leads Michigan as the shades of night are falling over Soldiers field one Saturday this fall the credit will not be permitted in the remotest degree to attach to the university at Cambridge. The victory will merely be a sportsmanlike achievement of a group of young amateurs who happen to attend classes there and enjoy the exercise. Cheers, if any, will be for the good old game of football, without the whisper of a hint that Harvard is involved...