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Senator Barkley asked about Hooverism's relations with Will Hays and other suspicious public characters. The answers being barren, he asked if Candidate Hoover was not a man "of considerable means...
...problems on which the Freshman would rather consult a student than a faculty adviser. For this reason alone it would be unwise in abolish entirely the present advisory system. But the system does need considerable simplification. If all the machinery of visits, reports, letters, and blanks which has proved barren of practical results were abolished, and the entire efforts of the committee devoted to providing readily available advice for Freshmen who really want it the efficacy of the system would be greatly increased. The simplification of the advisory committee functions would also make fewer advisers necessary, and thus raise...
...following year was more or less of a transitional period for the University track team and while its results were barren in the way of victories, the foundation for great teams was being laid. On December 1, 1923, nearly 100 track men crowded the Varsity Club to hear W. J. Bingham '16 make his last speech as head track coach. "In the last two years," he said, "we have learned many things--first and foremost, that in order to assure the success of a track team it is necessary to develop not stars but a large body of runners, taking...
Engaged. Miss Lois Mai Fukushima, active Junior Leaguer of New Rochelle, N. Y., daughter of a Japanese father and American mother; to Charles E. Townsend, editor of the Car Card, house organ of Barren G. Collier, Inc. (advertising...
...naval limitation, neglected to deal with the desperate British coal situation, and once more rebuffed the expressed desire of Continental nations to gird the League with strength to enforce international settlements. Even should each of these doubtful acts be adjudged sound, their sum total remains negative and barren. Talk rumbles in England that a change at the helm of State is overdue. As the New Year looms, it is pertinent to re-examine Stanley Baldwin. Policies. The Prime Minister's policies are that he is honest, broadly disinterested, hugely naive, and means well. To paint another man in such...