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With a chaste and simple dignity, the Interfraternity Council yesterday announced that no freshmen will be permitted in fraternity houses over Green Key week-end. With the deliverance of that dictum, to which, incidentally, the Council gave its unanimous approval, there vanished the freshman's last and lone solution to the odd-moment problem...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra will play Strauss's. "Ein Heldenleben," a "Tondichtung," or in simplified terms "A Hero Life" a "Tone Poem." Out of deference to the artistic spirit the Vagabond will not launch into his usual scholarly criticism. He is willing, may desirous, of abiding by the composer's dictum that, "There is no need of a program. It is enough to know that a hero is fighting his enemies." That is the crux of the whole work; bear it in mind, because there are occasional moments in the Tone Poem when that salient fact can be lost sight...
...coming cohort of holy men who are brisk and virile at church doors, and who in their hearts find Jesus Christ all very well, but not so absorbing as Golf on week days. Comment is superfluous; all the same one is continually reminded of Dr. Johnson's dictum: "Sir, the merriment of parsons is mightily offensive." Cuthbert Wright...
...Arthur's dictum last week became Professor Franz Boas' rhetorical opportunity. Professor Boas is also a great anthropologist, and 1932 president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The A. A. A. S. last week was at Pasadena, holding its first summer meeting. Ordinarily at the regular annual meetings (Christmas school holidays) the incoming president presides and the retiring president gives a learned address. As an innovation for the summer meeting President Thomas Hunt Morgan sat still while President-elect Boas talked...
...relations in 1914, economic jealousy between France and the Central Powers. At that time the friction contributed to the numerous causes for war then existing on the continent. Now the matter is to be settled by arbitration, and will rest upon the decision of a third party. Whether the dictum of the World Court will regulate in any way the future activities of France or Germany is yet to be seen...