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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Supreme Court. For 70 years the U. S. Supreme Court has sat in a room in the Capitol less impressive than many a county court room. Cramped in between House and Senate, the Justices lack adequate offices, take their cases home to work on. A new Supreme Court Building (ten millions) of classic lines will soon rise opposite the Capitol, north of the Library of Congress. To make room for this new structure the "Old Capitol"?in which Congress sat after the 1814 fire, in which Civil War prisoners were housed, in which the National Woman's Party...
...Yale last week went Princeton's learned francophile, Dean Christian Gauss, to speak at the annual banquet of Yale's Daily News. His points: undergraduates have a sound desire for cultural improvement, are not mercenary. Another point: "... Recently . . . Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick announced that there was less drinking in the colleges than before Prohibition. He cited Yale and Stanford. . . . The News and the Stanford Daily refused to accept the intended compliment. ... I do not know about New Haven but with regard to drinking in the colleges throughout the country I am afraid you are right. ...* You have finished...
...light cruisers), Herbert Hoover maintains, as did Calvin Coolidge. that they are relative. Thus the British have insisted that they need a certain number of light cruisers, irrespective of how many or how few are possessed by other nations; but it remains the U. S. contention that more or less of these ships are required by a given country, in proportion as the number of prospective enemy ships is great or small...
...Hello Towns! Editor Anderson has collected editorials and news stories from his two weeklies, pitched them together with a few running comments, and produced the book-a-year which his enterprising Manhattan publisher demands. Some of the news stories are less news than story and are the more pleasing to an articulate citizen of Marion: "As for town and county news, we have usually heard it at the post office or drug-store two or three days before the Marion Democrat comes out. That, of course, adds to interest in the Democrat, as everybody wants to see how the thing...
...with one of the strongest teams in Blue tennis history, defeated Amherst last Wednesday, by $ to 1. Hays, however, No. 1 man for the Purple, is one of the outstanding players in the East, and should give Captain B.H. Whitbeck '29 a hard battle, while captain Richardson is hardly less able than his brilliant teammate...