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...American spirit of private initiative, and warned his hearers against the extension of governmental control over business. Mr. Hoover had no fears that, owing to our huge stock of gold, the current trade boom would end in inflation. He did, however, urge that coal be stored now to lighten the transportation problem next fall and winter...
...method, on the other hand would bring the election as closely as is possible to each man in the class. It would preserve the secrecy of the ballot it would lighten much of the work which now falls on the shoulders of the Election Chairman. It might even receive thus through the mail, especially with the incentive of a stamped envelope, as ready a response as floods the Cambridge post office now in answer to the social invitations in Boston,--or would the ballots have to be engraved? R. P. BULLARD...
...only permanent contribution box for alumni will be the customary twenty-fifth year gift of each college class. The establishment of a "University Chest" similar in plan to Vermont's Loyalty Fund would serve as a permanent storehouse for all graduate offerings, rich and poor alike, and would lighten the task of "continually passing...
Those who read the Lampoon regularly have long grown accustomed to a dull Freshman Number at the beginning of the year. For apparently summer vacations do not lighten the touch of the Muses; and even the Bacchanalian revels of those editors who re-create abroad seem to weigh heavily upon a jester's pen. This being so, the quantity of amusing verses, apothgems and drawings in the current number augurs well for a good year of the magazine. Several pages, it is true, are obviously filled with stuffing--with the tatulent buffoonery which comes of labored writing. Almost invariably...
...death at the very mention of so dangerous an affiliation. As usual neither fire, murder, nor sudden death has descended. Instead of a great group dominating the country and its politics, we find that the bloc is merely a comparatively small number of representatives of agricultural districts trying to lighten the very numerous trials and tribulations of the farmer by voting as a unit on agricultural questions. The Farm Bloc is a farm bloc pure, plain, and simple-and as such has a very definite place in the political life of the country. As a whole we Americans...