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With great grumpings and whirrings, 156 sugar mills in Cuba last week commenced to grind the 1930 cane crop. Set in motion by a presidential decree, they will work night and day for four months manufacturing some 4,500,000 tons of raw sugar. About the centrals was a new and unexpected enthusiasm. Officers and workers smiled and laughed for they had something to make them happy: the Senate of the U. S. had refused to increase the U. S. customs duty on raw sugar...
...there is no practical gain, for it is already accepted that two cups of black Waldorf coffee guaranteed insomnia and a finished thesis. The gallons of steaming fluid which will be consumed might better be sold to shivering football spectators or sent out at midnight to those who grind exceeding slow. Nor can one underestimate the possibility of fatal error and the danger of a total waste of the investigator's time if the frothy decaffeinated stuff from Childs' is used. That the conditions of this scientific drinking bout may be better understood--are the tipplers to clear their taste...
...Regulation of Public Utilities in such a way that he would be able to focus his knowledge of Economics on something of real interest to his own line of study. Under such a plan a broad basis of knowledge in the related fields would still be essential, but the grind of going over the details of elementary courses would give way to more profitable and interesting study. Some sort of move in this direction would be in keeping with the noteworthy place which the Division of History Government and Economics has held in the progress of the Tutorial System...
...charge should find a definitely established system travelling along at top speed. Without doubt Coach Horween's decision must have been influenced by the wealth of more than promising material which will report to him next September Football under Horween has been generally considered a pleasure and not a grind; under such circumstances the spirit in the Crimson lamp has remained and will remain high...
...Hodges '31 will take the journey to New York. It is not yet decided whether Hodges or Floathe will run as seventh man; since his injury early in the season, the former has not been able to reach his best form: which of the two will go over the grind may not be decided until just before the start of the race...