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...made an estimate as to the amount of relief they will be enabled to extend the scrub women as the Dutch Cleanser Collection Boxes had not been gathered when they made their statement. All efforts to discover the identify of the Board of Directors proved of little avail as there have been no resignations as yet. It has been learned, however that there are 13 members on the board...
...plain by this time, however, that their efforts would be of little avail, for the flames were already showing signs of subsiding through sheer lack of sustaining fuel. At 5.30 o'clock this morning, the smouldering embers and skeleton walls were a mute testimony to the tinderbox qualities and inadequacy of Soldier Field's superannuated and condemned athletic center...
...House Plan is going to be tried out, and nothing that anybody says this year will stop things. Last Friday the inquisitor did his best to point this out and put people at case, or at least to prevent a lot of wasted effort, but to no avail, evidently. They are still harping on the House Plan and the failure of the News to represent undergraduate opinion when there wasn't any to represent. Well, it doesn't hurt anybody and it may do some good in waking the place up and making it a little more interesting. I always...
...Freshmen were admitted to the new houses it would narrow their possible field of acquaintances their life would not be much more comfortable than it is now in the dormitories or would be in the Yard, and they would not be in a position to avail themselves of the opportunities offered by the tutors...
...observer in the Freshman Dining Halls these long spring evenings notes that while the doors open at 5.30 very few men avail themselves of the opportunity of eating until six o'clock or after. Statistics show that in one dormitory less than 30 percent eat in the first hour. The peak is reached...