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...business and to do service to the greatest advantage" will be Mr. Hoover's policy in the thorough reorganization of the Department of Commerce. It is his plan to give this department a broader scope than it has hither to possessed. Separate bureaus of foreign and domestic commerce are to be created and co-operation will be furthered between various trade organizations. Then, too, by giving to this department many of the duties which at present are assigned to other executive departments, such as the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Directorship of Public Roads, and to Inland and Coastwise Waterways Service...
Howells: Hither and Thither in Germany...
Contrary to off-hand opinion, the German movement in the West has taken on the aspect of a supreme effort toward victory. Prepared on lines hither-to unparalleled, and executed with an energy, power and sacrifice of human lives scarcely credible, the German offensive not only seriously threatens the British army, but offers the possibility of the defeat of our cause...
Brow meets brow on Soldiers Field this morning at ten, when our own Phi Beets meet their Yale brethren in a clash for physical supremacy. The pristine pellet will be hurled hither and you with most unscholarly abandon, and the Sons of the Midnight Oil will undoubtedly perform monumental feats in their desperate efforts to bring home the Bacon. The local team is greatly strengthened by the arrival of C. P. Curtis, Jr., '14, who has come all the way from Europe to participate. E. A. Hetter '14, of Lampoon infamy, will act as the board of arbitration...
While we recently skimmed the lines of your refreshing sporting columns, in ex-officio spirit, we observed with a sensation betwixt a start and mild amusement, the native boldness with which you have suggested a *frappe with our hither to unbeaten septette of picked icemen. It is not so much the mild effrontery try and subtle brazenness of this offer which has caused our cynicism, as the air of dauntless bravado with which a spirited journal can afford to ignore a succession of ignoble crushing and yet rise once more, weak and giddy, only to be pushed once more between...