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...members of the Peace Society, the Liberal Club, the N.S.L., and the S.L.I.D., meet this evening in Emerson D to form an omnibus Student Union. The idea is to spread the membership from the present measly 100 all told to the whole body of students, presumably at least a large minority, who take definite interest in politics and political questions. Those who have scorned and scoffed, with some justification, at past manifestations of political activity in Harvard, have now a unique opportunity to enter a political group at its beginning, and mold it along more intelligent lines...
...wish to correct the statement in TIME, Dec. 16, that the University of Wichita's only claim to fame is its Omnibus College. Wichita University has a much greater claim to fame in the fact that the Dean of the College of Fine Arts is the foremost contemporary U. S. composer, Thurlow Lieurance, master of Indian music...
Even before he went to Washington, Republican Jardine had had a better job as president of Kansas State Agricultural College. The University of Wichita's only claim to fame was its Omnibus College, which enrolled 700 students each summer for a study-junket about the U. S. and Canada (TIME, July 17, 1933). Upon taking office, Mr. Jardine found that among solid Wichitans the university was considered a bit uppish. Forthwith he announced that the university would consider it a prime function to acclimate its students in the regional culture of Wichita, Kans. The Omnibus College was disowned...
...Speaker, on Monday I spoke on the Omnibus Banking Bill. I understand that some Members of the other body feel that certain of my remarks reflected upon them. Of course, I was discussing issues and not personalities. In view of the understanding which certain Members on the other side have, I desire to say that I intended no reflection on the steadfast patriotism, the absolute integrity, and the high purpose of any Member of the United States Senate. On the actual issues involved, in the statement I made on Monday, I adhere absolutely to what I then said...
Senators who had refused to sit in conference with non-blustering Representative Goldsborough on the Omnibus Banking Bill unless he retracted his remarks about them considered that he had "crawfished" sufficiently in the foregoing statement to resume their conference with...