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...Tomorrow". M. Barthon is reported to have said after reading the latest Russian billet-doux, "tomorrow we will be packing our trunks or buying bathing suits." At present the choice of the French delegation is not know it does not greatly matter. The Genoa conference seems no nearer its supposed aim, the economic reconstruction of Europe, than when it heard Mr. Lloyd-George's first optimistic speech...
...Such a project will not only save many industries for Massachusetts which must otherwise move nearer the coal fields on the water power of the South, but it will permit Massachusetts to expand with the rest of the country...
These dormitories appear to be of two types--the older, which lie nearer the center of the university site, and the newer type, at a considerably greater distance. I shall describe first a building of the former type. The rooms are usually about ten by six feet in size, and eight feet high. In the walls there are sockets which indicate that they once supported some sort of projections or shelves. These no doubt were used as auxiliary sleeping quarters. Thus four students must have been accommodated in one of these tiny rooms. In addition there were similar rooms, without...
...understood that while I was in college I had no affiliations with the Lampoon beyond the subscription list, so my personal feelings are untroubled by Mr. Code's tirade. Lampy, I think--and I am not alone in this opinion--, is at a point of development which is nearer to the type of a professional humorous publication, however, than any other representative of collegiate wit, and I think also that Mr. Code, if he takes a dose of pepsin and another look at the sheet, will agree with me. I am, sir, Yours etc, G. EMMONS '16 Concord...
...this, it might be objected, is a pessimistic view of the matter; we can hardly be expected, however, to rejoice, Pollyanna-wise, that Curley did not win by a larger majority. We might as well admit that there is something rotten in a state nearer than Denmark...