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...sure the House plan, though it meant to bring men in a House nearer together, never meant to force those in different House apart. I hope the College will take up this issue of the CRIMSON and seriously work out a plan before those men who are in their first year regret that they are tied up by the House Plan. Peyton Murray...
Leaving the world pence and the reparations hanging in abeyance for the moment, the debating teams of Yale and Smith have turned their attentions nearer home. Smith has been defending the introduction of co-education at Yale, saying that old Eli should "give a rousing cheer to any women who want to sit with the men through their lectures on trigonometry or medieval history...
Some (but only a few) of Author Spencer's sentences are as fearful & wonderful as any Author James ever spun: "She yet, however, hungrily clung to it, used it, developed it: it came nearer to anything else to yielding what she so deeply needed ; and if it fell to an inordinate memory thus at the beginning sometimes to wound her with abnormal revisionings, it was to become the office of an equally inordinate imagination in the end to turn them, in restitution, to another account ? to select, to reshape, to interpret every adaptable passage in the history...
Working all summer with big depth bombs and small depth bombs, grim Italian divers have blown and bubbled their way slowly nearer to a bullion treasure of $5,000,000 sunk off the west coast of France in the strong room of the foundered British liner Egypt (TIME, Sept. 8, 1930 et seq.). Last week with the treasure almost grasped, the Italian diver ship Artiglio II ran out of wine & spaghetti, promptly put back to the harbor of Brest. There, while she took on cases of spaghetti and 600 litres of the scorching red wine that Italian seamen like...
Exempt from this may be some commodities (perhaps wheat and corn), some manufactured goods and a variety of miscellaneous products (flour, cement) which have foreign competition. The actual increase to the roads might be nearer 6% as measured by gross freight revenues. And the Commission moves slowly; Depression continues; many months must pass before any increase can be translated to earnings. Hence a nervous psychology has developed in the minds of investors toward rail bonds. Part of this psychology has been due to misunderstanding of newspaper headlines saying that many rail bonds may soon be "illegal...