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...Rindge Technical High School, and in the case of this pressing need, it might be possible that arrangements be made with this school so that part of its space could be used for these courses. Even the basements of Memorial Hall might be used to take care of the overflow temporally and until suitable quarters can be found; running water is already available there and more electric lights might be installed. Any of these solutions would, of course, be mere makeshifts to take care of the immediate necessity. When the University is out of its present financial difficulty, a separate...
...cheers and boat whistles. Miss England III, her engines sputtering now, slowed down miserably to 49.661 m. p. h. in the fifth lap, crossed the finish two miles behind Miss America X, She had a broken throttle at the carburetor on her starboard motor, a break in the overflow pipe for water circulation that shot water into the boat instead of over the side, caused Kaye Don to wonder if he had sprung a leak...
...last school year there were 22.135 students. During the previous year there were 21.982. This year the schools expect a proportionate increase. But there is not room now for all medical aspirants. Canada's 2,448 students last year included 308 U. S. citizens. The U. S. medical overflow sent 339 U. S. students and their fees into Great Britain (Scotland was very hospitable), 188 into Austria (a 50% increase over the previous year), 155 into Italy (100% increase), 183 into Germany (150% increase), 214 into Switzerland (230% increase). The American Medical Association, which keeps close...
...Congressional Record, costing $58 per page, does not stop with Congress. For ten days after adjournment it continues to appear as a supplement containing the oratorical leftovers of the session. Into it are also rammed members' undelivered speeches ("extension of remarks"), newspaper articles, addresses by outsiders ?a wordy overflow for campaign purposes...
...like some tropical bird whose plumage had been dimmed and ruffled by captivity and whose cage was not kept as clean as it should be." It was at her irrational house with the Spink boys and girls that the best fun was to be found. Making the cistern water overflow from the attic and tobogganing with it down the stairs was a panacea for all childish ills...