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...retirement would go hand in hand, while the files would be steadily replenished by the inexorable rhythm of examinations. Thus students and university alike would benefit and the latter would reclaim one more pound of monetary flesh from Widener by the savings effected by relegating the bound books to oblivion...
...gate receipts is past, the compromise will appear either as a postponement of the inevitable day of reckoning or a virtual subsidy to the H.A.A. But the outlook is by no means so gloomy as this. The time may come when college football will follow college baseball into financial oblivion, and when the University will be forced to find some other means of financing the athletic program. But for the immediate future there is reason to believe that ensuing seasons will see a substantial increase in the volume of football gate receipts. If such is the case, the wiping...
More than 200 bills started their way toward the purgatory of committees and the hell of oblivion in the House last week. Well did its 432 members know that all the session's important legislation would originate not in Congress but at the White House, whence would come, week by week, the order of business. Nevertheless, tradition dictated a simulacrum of consequential activity...
University Hall awaits the outcome with the deepest suspense. This quarrel is regarded as the barometer of Harvard's fortunes outside of New England, and may result in crossing off much geographical cross-section if Harvard succumbs to oblivion in Virginia. But we feel that if Harvard's teachings are alien to Virginia traditions something should be done about it right away. It is an unnatural state of affairs...
...year 1933, in departing into unlamented oblivion, has taken along in its wake a handsome company of notables. The old time elect, the salt of the earth the repositories of 100 per cent Americanism, have departed from the limelight and left only unsavory memories and economic chaos beyond anything Alice might have encountered in Wonderland...