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...Naples students emitted lusty cries of "Down with the Croats!" In Venice roiled crowds attempted to stage a riotous demonstration in front of the French and Jugoslav Consulates, engaging in a pitched battle with the police, their obstructors. After night fell they made a wild but fruitless dash by gondolas on the Jugoslav consular edifice...
...explaining the work, Professor McLaughlin emphasized the fact that present mines are being exhausted, while the demand for metals in increasing, and that without positive ways of knowing where, and in what quantities, hidden deposits lie, millions of dollars would be wasted in fruitless digging...
...under cover of a black and windy night and sever the life's blood of a tree, cherished by me for over three years, it is then time for the Cambridge Police to send in riot calls, and to deal death in the Brattle Square Police Station without the fruitless efforts of a trial...
...continued efforts of the H. A. A. yesterday to find pace-makers for Wide again proved fruitless. Coach Farrell stated last night to the CRIMSON that the burden of the task of pushing the Swedish runners to a new record would fall on the shoulders of three Harvard undergraduates if the H. A. A. is unable to find competitors outside of the University. The three men are E. C. Haggerty '27, captain of the track team and intercollegiate mile champion, J. L. Reid '29, captain elect of the cross-country team, and Lesile Flaskman...
...Preparatory Commission for a Disarmament Conference of the League of Nations meets to day to resume those discussions which last May proyed so fruitless as to warrant their long adjournment. Within the last week, France has made it only too clear that President Coolidge's somewhat ill-timed proposal can expect no Gallic support. And Russia still stands aloof on the edge of Europe, an inevitable bar to any effective disarmament in Europe...