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This is a great boon to Plebe life, this individual recognition, for it usually means that the Plebe is taken under the wing of some upperclassman who helps him out of difficulties and gives him advice. When the Plebe "goes deficient"--is below average--in academics, he usually goes to his predecessor, a man from the same town or district, and gets coaching or council on what...
...band of volunteers offers to teach men confused by the freedom of college the proper methods of correlating and assimilating the information given out in books and lectures. Proper recognition of such unselfish effort may scarcely be expected, but there are many to whom this work has been a boon in the past who will be grateful for the proposed extension of the present admirable aims of this organization...
Whenever a bath is taken by His Highness the Aga Khan, the bathwater is carefully preserved, bottled and shipped to Mohammedan communities throughout the world. Thus the faithful are provided with a priceless boon. Holy Water in which a descendant of Prophet Mohammed has laved himself. No niggard, the Aga Khan charges for the really enormous quantity of water in which he bathes each year, only his weight in gold. The ceremony of weighing His Highness takes place each twelvemonth at Aga Hall, Bombay; and then and there the golden wage is payed by representatives of the various Mohammedan sects...
Should the U. S. grant independence to the Philippine Islands and then, after six years, withdraw that boon, Filipinos could scarcely become more vexed than were Egyptians last week...
...anything like a working majority, the election of last week assumes its true insignificance. Politically, Poland is a loose conglomeration of irresolute entities, held together, for good or ill, by a National Military Hero. He remains, however, self-confessedly no statesman. The marvel is that Poland, once given the boon of a government which is at least stable, has forged ahead so rapidly in agriculture, industry and commerce. Pertinent is a report recently issued by Financial Advisor to the Bank of Poland Charles Schuveldt Dewey, onetime (1924-27) Assistant Secretary of the U. S. Treasury...