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...sustenance depends upon that system, and by the timidly which abounds in an atmosphere of traditional conservatism, University Hall has seen fit to treat the tutorial system as altogether subordinate to the old order, to make it fill in the gaps, to reduce it to kind of an intellectual mustard plaster. Year after year, the president and the deans have obscured this subordination with fine phrases and high optimism. But concrete advances have been hesitant, almost apologetic. The fact of subordination remains, and when the time comes to eliminate or reduce budgetary items, the tutorial system springs to mind...
...stories will be "Wild Mustard" by Andrew H. Brown '34, "Melody with Fugue" by Loughlin, and "October Calm" by Charles H. Newton...
They roused him with muffins-they roused him with ice- They roused him with mustard and cress- They roused him with jam and judicious advice- They set him conundrums to guess. Lewis Carroll...
...months at Geneva there has been heard a dull and droning sound: the voices of delegates to the League's impotent Disarmament Conference endlessly talking about ratios, quotas, munitions, mustard gas, manifestoes. There was a new noise in Geneva last week: the clatter of crutches, the thumping of canes, the creaking of wheel chairs as 8,000 veterans, representatives of 8,000,000 more in a dozen countries, stumbled in ungainly parade through the streets to let the Disarmament Conference know that they were tired of talk. The veterans were representatives of two international associations with names as awkward...
Some Nazi Storm Troops had just raided her apartment brandishing pistols, said Widow Ebert. They had demanded, "Give us your mustard flag!" (A derisive Nazi term for the now abolished German Republican banner of black, red & gold...