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...same privileges as those who are lucky enough to live in the river palaces already. This would mean that about thirty additional non-residents would use the facilities of each House. Such an increase, though perhaps tending to nullify the effort to make the Houses "individual", would not overburden the commissariat, the common rooms, or the libraries...
...solution would be to elect eight seniors to the big board, one from each House, all of whom would be members of their respective House committees. These men could be House chairmen or not, as the plebiscite and their individual wishes determined, but care should be taken not to overburden them with excessive routine duties in House organization, lest their efficiency and enthusiasm on the Council be impaired. Three more seniors would then be appointed at large to fill out the complement of eleven. Juniors would continue to be elected and appointed from the whole college. Thus, without expanding...
Pictorials are the chief cause for a photographic staff. The normal necessities of a daily paper which in no way attempts to compete with the tabloids are not so much as to overburden, or even stimulate, two or three alert eameramen. A series of photographic review of the university will provide tutereating work for three times that number...
Editor Van Coevering does not overburden his magazine with preaching. Most of it is filled with conversational stories about Michigan fields & streams, articles on sports and Nature-lore. Michigan's foremost Nature-lover and onetime Governor, Chase Salmon Osborn, contributes a lyrical paean to Spring. First issue of 40,000 sold out 95%, even in hard-pressed Detroit...
...prime tenet in President Hoover's international credo is, as all the world now knows, limitation, of armaments. He has hammered relentlessly away at the thesis that Armies now overburden the world, that the quickest way out of the Depression is to reduce war forces and the taxes which support them. Though the U. S. has no sizeable army to cut (138,000 officers & men), the President consented to join the Geneva Conference in the earnest hope that the U. S. could somehow help other great powers agree to limit their soldiery. For U. S. participation he asked Congress...