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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...France, famed Author Ibanez, himself no mean duellist, although "he has never yet succeeded in killing anyone," received the challenge. Said he: "Spanish has always been my people's language, unlike the Habsburg who now sits on the Spanish throne. Varella doesn't need to say in four languages that he will slap my face to induce me to fight. I am ready to meet him at any time...
...Institute of 1770 with the Hasty Pudding, we have much more material from which to choose than ever before. Moreover, for the first time Sophomores are eligible to compete. This year we have three candidates instead of three vacancies, as we did last year, for each part. This will mean a lot of work for everybody. It will be a 'survival of the fittest' in the most literal sense of the phrase...
...complaint. Two years ago, when we were inmates--if I may use the word--of the Freshman Halls, the food was generally prepared in a very poor fashion. Save for a few standard dishes the articles on the so-called menus were uniformly badly cooked. I do not mean to say that they were unwholesome though memory of certain cream puffs still lurks in my mind and in those of others as well. The food was probably both wholesome and nourishing, but youth has the outrageous habit of wishing its food to be palatable also, and Freshman Hall food certainly...
...rapidly, the moderate parties would seem to have some chance of convincing the German people that their best interests are bound up with the present regime, and that the word 'Republic', hitherto associated in the minds of so many Germans only with defeat, humiliation and misery, may come to mean peace, prosperity, and restoration to an honorable place among the nations of the world...
...abuses of reading room privileges has provoked a very moderate protest, printed elsewhere, from the harassed Librarian. The disclosure of stealing, mutilation, and abuses of purposely lenient rules but repeats common knowledge; the student body is well aware that some users of the library are robbing the rest by mean and annoying practices. The whole gamut of petty crime, from defacement of pictures and pages to temporary removal or real theft, is traversed by a few, too inconsiderate of others and too greedy of their own convenience...