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...tributaries, which the Jones bill did not benefit, were bridling and bickering. To spur their debates to a modest conclusion, President Coolidge hinted that he might have the War Department proceed at once with anti-flood construction, using the authority of the Rivers & Harbors Act and money from the current Army appropriations...
...Dowse Lectures for the current year will be given by Dr. A. T. Davison '06, Associate Professor of Music, on March 12, 14, 19, and 21. The first two lectures will be on the subject of "The Elizabethan and Victorian Eras in Choral Music", the third on "Part-Songs and Anthems of Victorian Composers" and the last on "Choral Writing in the Gilbert and Sullivan Operas." The lectures will be given at 8 o'clock, in Sanders Theatre. They will be illustrated by a chorus of Radcliffe and Harvard students...
...contents within often show a wide divergence. For instance, a Vaudeville Number may deal with various forms of the theatrical and in nine cases out of ten there are violations of the general tone of the issue. It is pleasing to see that those responsible for the current Lampoon have from the very first picture (a realistic one to the Haveler who knows the American Express in Paris) set a tone which is maintained throughout. The clever page ornaments, the drawings of various climes (in which every part of the world is represented), the naturalistic rendering of the jokes...
Constructive experimentation is undeniably the order of the day in higher circles of education. While Harvard tests the value of the Reading Period, Yale again faces a most vital proposition which, in view of President Angell's treatment of it in a speech delivered recently and printed in the current issue of The Yale Alumni Weekly, is not only of prime significance to every Yale man but to the educational world in general...
Colorado's I. W. W. coal strike, current since October, ended last week. Wobbly Tom Connors, strike chief, announced that a statewide ballot (the second one cast within a month) was 88% in favor of returning to work. Another Wobbly leader gave the reason: "The slack season is upon us. It is foolish to strike when the bosses can meet the demand for coal by keeping a few scabs at work...