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...hundred and eighteen seats had to be filled. Announced candidates for those seats totaled 3,580 divided among more than 20 different parties three weeks ago, but had mounted to 4,807 by the time polling places were opened.* At the end of ten hours, the 10,000,000 voters had only succeeded in electing 179 Deputies by a clear majority of votes cast. All the other districts will have to have a second ballot this Sunday when a straight plurality will elect a candidate. Commentators, soothsayers, fortunetellers, numerologists and betting commissioners promptly sat down to make what they could...
Although there may be some justification for this inference by one unacquainted with the facts, any thorough reading of all the appraisals printed will clearly show that the writer's inference does not conform to the actual case. The "Crimson" has praised and censured alike. After eighteen conferences with men selected by their respective departments it has been our invariable experience to find students open-minded and quite willing to give frank opinions-of anyone in their fields. There is no reason to believe that men selected by their departments should be especially favorable toward their particular faculty, or that...
...Eighteen Yardling ball players were selected last night by Coach Adolph Samberski to make the annual Spring Trip. The first game will be played on Tuesday, March 31 in Baltimore, Maryland, with the Gilman School. Teams from Mercersburg, St. Alban's, and Staunton will also...
...Eighteen-year-old Teresa Hawkins was overjoyed when the business school of Fairmont, W. Va. gave her a 100% grade in shorthand fortnight ago. To celebrate, she and two school chums went to the cinema. There Teresa, for no funny reason on the screen, started to laugh. Her friends, unable to stop her, took her home. Her father, unable to stop her, drove her to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. The doctors, unable to stop her, sent her to West Virginia's State Hospital at Weston, where last week she lay shaking every 30 minutes with newsmaking paroxysms...
...Eighteen men have been selected from the 53 contestants turning out in Paine Hall Saturday afternoon for the first round in the Lee Wade and Bolyston prize competition. The contestants were required to deliver a memorized passage taking not more than seven nor less than five minutes selected from any famous work of prose or poetry...