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...long time students have signed petitions; yearned vocally, or yearned silently for a Harvard swimming pool, and few will not agree with Mr. Moore that "something ought to be done about it." That something apparently lies with the Corporation and has lain dormant with the Corporation since last spring. When funds are available and plans have been drawn, it seems only reasonable that the University should receive some report...
...American attitude towards the Ruhr problem. That is, he has strongly approved Secretary Hughes' plan for a committee of expert accountants to audit Germany's books. In doing this he has voiced the general American public opinion, and has called attention to a solution which has long lain neglected...
...meet will not have things his own way this week. L. T. Brown of Dartmouth has improved, as his new world's indoor record of 6 feet 4 7-8 inches shows. Here as in the polve-vault the competition for the minor places will be keen, Chamber lain of Virginis, Howell of Leland Stanford, Weatherdon a New York University, and Doppell of Cornell all having done over six feet...
Since Premier Hughes' statement that his country is prepared to fight for a "White Australia," the question of Asiatic immigration has lain dormant, at least in so far as the public eye can observe. Evidently no one has dared to broach the subject after the Premier's fiery outburst,--thinking it best to "let sleeping dogs...
...occasion of the death of any great man and the accompanying review of his life and doings, one is suddenly minded of one's own shortcomings and the imperfections that hitherto had lain deeply hidden beneath an ever accumulated mass of self-satisfaction. Then it is that the ardent disciple of greatness pauses in his oftentimes misguided course, and, being seized with a wholesome attack of doubts and misgivings, humbly seeks to mend his ways...