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State budget had increased some 16 millions, reaching $232,641,701. He explained how the money was spent, for highways, education, hospitals, prisons, conservation, claims, public works. He pointed out that the Legislature, controlled by Republicans, had only been able to lop $25,000 from his Administration figures, and had tried to add on "unnecessary" appropriations of $219,000, which he had vetoed. He anticipated a political outcry against "extravagance" by promising to defend his fiscal policies and the $16,000,000 increase anywhere, any time...
...fact, considers that to kill is to cure, and advises that, since college is a "palpable waste of time", all general education should give place to small specialized groups in close relation with their professors. The "Nation" proves comparatively humane; to keep all "undesirables" from college it would simply lop off intercollegiate athletics...
...letters into a space meant for 14, a chance to edit copy, to rate the news value of stories; a chance to go downstairs and make up the next day's issue, to take the type in your hands and but in the forms, to lop off a bit here and another bit there so a column may be compressed into a half column space; a chance to grab with ink-stained fingers the first copy to come off the press and eagerly look for mistakes, mistakes which you are all too apt to find and which...
...Crimson nine for the last time on Saturday, conceded before the game every chance to repeat the 14 to 3 victory he scored last month. When the game was over, he had won again, preserving his spotless record against Harvard baseball teams, but it was by no such lop-sided score, and as late as the seventh inning he must have felt slightly worried about his laurels. That inning and the next saved him, and Holy Cross ended the game a 6 to 2 winner...
...justify the plan of adherence to specific requirements than has the vociferous liberal's plea for selection. In the first place, the degree must mean something. We don't want candidates at graduation presented with a medal for "spending" four years in college. Nor do we want them lop-sided brain specimens...