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...wildfowler it is not the long winter evenings but the long summer ones that irk...
...time has come for the University to step in and settle the question once and for all, and the commuters have the answer. Segregation may be harmful, but until the Houses decide to admit commuters as "associate members," the present muddled state of affairs will continue to irk the non-resident students...
Marseilles. The toughest city west of Suez is ardently, definitely Socialist and will take no dictatorship from Paris. Despite the Government's best efforts, export trade with the colonies, life blood of the port, has slumped. A local irk is the fact that, of all the Marseillais on the dole, a large proportion are jobless Italians and Rumanians. Nationality has nothing to do with the qualifications for French unemployment relief. A dismissed wage earner or salaried worker who has practiced one calling for six months, has been a resident of one city for three months, can collect...
...know Harvard and its students and teachers. There are many graduates (including President Roosevelt) who are authorities for the statement that they got more out of their activities at college than they did out of their courses. This is perhaps stretching a good point too far and might irk officials in University Hall, but it is certain that some activities provide experience and contacts that can be put to real use later...
...religious solidarity, give the faithful an outing on a large scale. Eucharistic Congresses have been held throughout France and Belgium, in Rome, Metz, Amsterdam, London, Fribourg, Jerusalem, Cologne, Malta, Montreal, Madrid, Vienna, Chicago, Sydney. Last one, in 1930, was in Carthage, where confusion of languages and races seemed to irk English-speaking visitors (TIME, May 19, 1930). For the 31st Congress, what place more fitting than that stronghold of piety, Ireland, home of 3,171,697 Catholics, motherland of many a U. S. priest? Chosen then was Dublin. With St. Patrick as a conspicuous example, the Congress would take...