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Previous to this year, it has been the custom to have regularly scheduled Monday night lectures given in each of the Common rooms in turn. The speakers for these meetings have been scheduled long in advance and they have not always been men familiar to the fist year undergraduates. Consequently, the lectures were not generally attended, even it the start of the year. The remedy proposed for this lack of interest will be a kind of Australian ballot system by which lectures popular among the Freshmen will be obtained. The system will be thoroughly explained tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1930 TO FOREGATHER AT SMOKER TONIGHT | 10/7/1926 | See Source »

...made his way to where you find him with help from no man. He is the dream of all his countrymen when he reaches a high place, a tornado of an Irishman to whom morals count less than a wart on a deacon's ankle. He has a fist of iron, a heart of gold, imagination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unholy Hollywood | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

...blow from a Spanish fist transformed me into what I shall always be-the foe of Spain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: To Reunion | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

...airplane. "Where am I?" he demanded, viewing with suspicion the brown terrain, the fog-filled, dingy air. "Half a mile from London, sir," replied the pilot courteously. Upon this information, the goggled person, a passenger recently embarked at Brussels, began a series of unpleasant antics, striking his fist against the side of the plane, cursing in a sodden voice, and stamping on the ground. He had wanted, it appeared, to go to Paris. At the Brussels Aerodrome, four planes had been leaving simultaneously for London, Brussels, Cologne, and Paris. He had simply gotten the wrong one. Becoming calmer, he exhibited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISCELLANY: Medicine | 9/6/1926 | See Source »

...Beloit, Wis., Senator Robert M. LaFollette was working up to a steaming climax in his denunciation of Samuel Insull, politically big-hearted public utility potentate. His forensic fist smote the railing of the speaker's platform in Beloit's best bandstand; 40 electric lights went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Beloit | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

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