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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believe that Yale college's numerical size with all the liasons which bind the college to "Sheff" and the freshman year is the factor which disintegrates the undergraduate public opinion and makes a house that is divided against itself." The proposal to sever the year-long relationship would at least clean that house which, as the News has said, is divided against itself; whether it would make more sturdy to structure is a question which only a fair trial of the plan could answer...
...first code (TIME, Feb. 15). The code, very full, contains the following chief items: 1) Both ships and pilots will be divided in three classes: transport, industrial, private. 2) There will be stringent inspection rules for every plane built, new or remodeled. 3) Private pilots must be aged at least 16, transport and industrial 18, and must pass examination in mechanics and operation. 4) Acrobatic flying is prohibited over congested parts of cities or towns; allowed in any case only when not carrying passengers for hire. 5) Normally, no plane may fly at less than 500 feet; over towns...
...Congressmen, not the least of whom is Senator Edwards of New Jersey, demanded that "legalized murder" by the Government be stopped. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon announced last week that he was opposed to the use of poison to enforce the law, but that formula "No. 5" would have to stay until a nonremovable, nonpoisonous denaturant* could be found by Government chemists...
...Half Way Down", a play in one act, supposedly a curtain raiser, proves that at least one Radcliffe soul has found the sawdust path to salvation better than the primrose avenue to disbelief. Ann, a shop girl whose diction approaches Thirty Third Street to retreat to Park Avenue, meets Father Time in the ringed arena of keen dialectic, vide Bruce Barton, and wins by faith alone. "There is a God", she cries, and all the little birds fly home to their nests and old father sun winks at little Johnnie Skunk...
There has probably been no greater problem facing the British Empire at least in its colonial affairs than the problem of India. Ever since its annexation to the Empire. India it seems has been more or less of a white elephant, bringing with it as much trouble as good...