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...Coolidge, who chose him from the corps of Washington correspondents where he represented Portland and Spokane papers. His reports of crudities in the Balkan capital kept his superiors in a state of giggly excitement, led to the construction of a new legation there. He, of all its men, could furnish the ever-curious State Department with a vivid description of conditions in Southern Russia...
...travel before the system can reach its goal; and it is here that the House Plan can provide an impulse. The organization of intramural sports by means of classes and fraternities has been carried about as far as possible. But the existence of six Houses, all of which should furnish material for enthusiastic representation in sports, means that there is opened an entirely new field of student athletic interest, to which even the present activities of class teams are not comparable...
...relegated to the sour-grapes wall of a disappointed athlete. It is equally true that his connection with Harvard rowing for eight years should have given him sufficient understanding of the situation to guarantee the accuracy of his charges. His pre-refusal of the Bulletin's request to furnish names is based on excusable opposition to reviving old prouder...
...General Electric plant has at present undertaken to furnish the California Institute of Technology with a fused quartz reflector for a 200 inch telescope. That means that this mirror will be about 17 feet in diameter and about three feet thick...
...those agents provacateurs in donning figurative false beards and going out on the vice-hunt, with their Index Expurgatorius in one hand and sufficient funds in the other to provide them with the latest and freshest in potentially risque literature. The two-kinds-of-falsehood idea should furnish an analogy for a two-purposes-in-reading theory, by which what must be kept with holy zeal from the unconcenrated eyes of ordinary mortals can be read with propriety, and of course without danger to their purity of soul, by these unofficial collagues of Boston's Finest...