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Each morning in your editorial columns appear with harmless regularity bits of innocuous criticism concerning University policy on stale and moot points while standing out in bold relief before your very eyes are all the flagrant flaws against which you refuse to act. It is relative to one of these flaws that I send this communication to you: The Eliot Night Lunch. Students are enticed by convenience of location into this subterranean palace where they are told that by a simple signature most marvelous things are produced. The scheme would be a very commendable one if it were...
...regard to the source of the sun's energy, and explained his own theory which has recently been accepted as the most promising. The number of calories the sun loses per second may be represented by the figure 1 followed by 26 ciphers. It has long been a moot question as to where this energy comes from, and a study of possible sources has brought forth several theories...
...question is: are they in there to stay? Peter has shone occasionally in the last few years when shadows filled the Stadium and he is improving fast. His passes look good, witness the connection to Dean on Monday. Whether he can beat out the veteran Wells is a moot question. Pesky has been sent back to the second-stringers in spite of a good show that he put on Friday. Fergie Locke is being tried in the blocking back position and seems to be able to deliver notwithstanding his lack of weight...
...first lecture in English 35a, Professor Lake carefully explains that the course will be of no use for those who are preparing to pass departmental Bible exams. Just how far he is right is a moot point. At least, one is forced, or should be forced, to read the Old Testament, and if it is the first time, there is some help. Otherwise, very little...
...Color, a moot subject in Hollywood for the last 20 years, still engages the attention of cinema engineers though most major producers are skeptical about using it except on rare occasions. From du Pont and M. I. T. engineers is soon expected an announcement that may revolutionize color pictures. Whether or not Technicolor's "three-component"' method is sufficiently perfect to make as good pictures of real people as it does of cartoons, whether it will be sufficiently appealing to make up for its expense, are two of the questions which Hollywood will be glad to have answered...