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...dying fires of the Polish-Lithuanian boundary dispute over Vilna do not signify that the heat is dead. An armistice agreed upon by both sides is only a lull in the hostilities that have been adding their quota to wrecking the peace equilibrium maintained with such immense difficulty in Europe...
...After a lull of about a week the proposed bonus bill again comes to the fore. President Harding has vetoed it once already, and now comes forward with the best possible proposal he could make. He does not wish the bill to pass, but realizes that should it pass it must be carefully financed, and so advises a sales tax to meet it, or, failing that, at least a delay...
...University football squad was given a complete rest yesterday. This lay-off will probably prove to be the lull before the storm, for it is rumored that the eleven will go through some extra stiff practice before the Brown game. The coaches were not satisfied with the showing of the eleven Saturday and they have no intentions of easing off on the drilling of the eleven in a mistaken belief that their charges have reached their highest point of development...
Messrs. Smith and Thompson gave evidence of careful preparation in their numbers for two pianos. After the vigorous concerto movement by Back, Reynaldo Uahn's delicate pieces, "To Lull a Convalescent," afford a poignant indication as to the reaction of the war upon a sensitive Gaelic mind. Two songs by Verlaine F. Hinners '19 to texts by Vervain were sung by Dr. Davison with a romantic appreciation of their atmospheric contents, and with no slight interpretative skill. The piquant Terzetto by Dyorak, with its inimitable Scherzo was excellently played by Messrs. Gammons Baker and Hoffmann. Duets by Hershey and Brahms...
There is a lull in the busy life of the University; the Faculty makes ready its first attack upon the undergraduates,--the Hour Examinations are at hand...