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...realizes his own fine youth and strength. His steely frame carries him down the streets in a series of mad gyrations, leaps, and striving. Gradually the objects he meets merge in a slurred monotone of grey, with occasional bursts of color. He is going faster, faster, faster. Faces loom up; they speak, but he hears them not, for he is imbued with the essence of spring. Swirling down out of his course to a peaceful rigidity, he buries his face in the grass, from which so recently the ice has melted; he giggles quietly to himself as the beauty...
...alternative to constructive social initiative may be a prolongation of a policy of drift. More definite alternatives, however, are urged by dictatorial systems in which the factors of force and violence loom large. . . . Unless there can be a more impressive integration of social skills than is revealed by recent trends, there can be no assurance that these alternatives with violent revolution and dark periods of repression can be averted. . . . The committee does not wish to assume an attitude of alarmist irresponsibility but it would be highly negligent to gloss over the stark and bitter realities of the social situation...
...ample opportunity to amend it. Its passage by the House was confidently predicted?but not by any such vote (272) as Repeal got the first clay of the session. The predominantly Dry Senate's action remained highly uncertain. And at the end of the legislative lane appeared to loom a veto by President Hoover who. unlike the Ways & Means majority, is known to feel that Beer before Repeal is Nullification...
...year of depression it is a popular pastime to criticize the amount of money expended by a college on athletics. Obviously to conduct intercollegiate and intramural athletics on such a scale as I have outlined costs money, and a great deal of money. Total figures loom large, and those not familiar with the number competing may well wonder if the $900,000 on the expense side of our ledger can be wisely expended on athletics. Although money paid out by the Athletic Association reaches this large total of $900,000, several major items in this sum cannot be regarded...
...questions seem to require serious attention and a full answer. If the 'House Libraries are inadequate, why must that discovery be made only after the reading period has begun? Why cannot the House and Widener Librarians confer, with reading lists before them, and come to some informed decision? These loom prominent in the undergraduate view of the problem. They will not be answered by unexplained denials and references to higher authority...