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Even in Boston, it is almost impossible to get a pound of hard coal. To alleviate this hardship, the city government undertook to sell coke, which it had put up in bags by convict labor to lessen the cost. The price, however, of this aid to the poor was five dollars a ton higher than the price of coke sold by private concerns. A few days ago, in North Cambridge and Somerville, several families paid eighteen dollars a ton for an excellent grade of crushed rock, powdered with wet soft coal dust, which an affable stranger offered them in unlimited...
...certain extent the Conference is restricted by the process of wing-clipping which has gone on since the summons was issued in January. The decision of the United States not to take part, though admittedly the only wise course, will perhaps lessen the immediate effectiveness of the Conference. German reparations, sanctions, and land armament cannot receive much attention because Poincare has made Lloyd George agree that there shall be no attempt to revise the Treaty of Versailles. Lloyd George, on the other hand, is prevented by the Conservatives at home from proceeding as fast as France would like toward...
...first receives from the book is of a weakling acting as the tool of his secretary's superior intelligence, an impression far removed, by the way, from that given by Boswell. If we were to take the book at its face value, the effect would be grossly to lessen our respect for the great man. Yet the introduction denies this earnestly; and a knowledge of Mr. Tumulty proves that he intends to do his superior a great service...
...professional ball games one expects to hear the home team jeered when it falls behind. One does not expect that a Harvard team will find support from Harvard men only when it has a chance of winning. Least of all does one expect that undergraduates will not only lessen their cheering as the game goes against the Crimson but will also either leave the stands or hoot their team. Comparisons are odious--the following one should be odious enough to bring out the point: when the Yale football team returned from its defeat at the hands of Princeton last fall...
...great modern authors. Lectures by professors, authorities in the literature of the various ages under discussion, would give the student a more comprehensive grasp of the true significance of the books they were reading. In any case, the present system is unsatisfactory, and, unless some action is taken to lessen the general indefinite feeling about the new requirements, the plan that should prove an aid to a truly broad education, will become nothing more than an additional obstacle in the path to a degree...