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...accomplished "simply by driving an ox-cart over the country while two men trudged along behind with shovels on their shoulders." The grant, by an oversight, included 111,385 acres reserved to the Indians by a treaty of the same year. In 1906 the U. S. Government made partial compensation (24,000 acres) for this mistake, was last week ordered to pay cash for the rest. The Klamath Indian Reservation, potentially the richest community in the world -each brave, squaw, and papoose is worth $28,000, mostly in standing timber- nevertheless did not turn down last week's windfall...
...partial solution will be provided by enlarging the scope of Plan B, or non-tutorial concentration. But at present the department does not plan to appoint enough new tutors to meet the demands of Plan A, and thus the men who remain will be greatly overburdened. Certainly it will be worthwhile, at least as a temporary measure. to enlist full professors as well as associates and assistants, thus spreading the burden of tutorial duty; and in the future care should be taken to avoid another sudden exodus from the ranks of any one department...
...majority. On this basis the bill seemed sure of passage, and riding back to Washington, tanned and rested after his busy week, Franklin Roosevelt felt reasonably convinced that in his noisiest fight since the plan to enlarge the Supreme Court a year ago, he had won at least a partial victory...
...House Plan is its utter disregard for the extra-curricular but still intellectual side of undergraduate life; intramural athletics are strenuously cultivated and social events benignly encouraged, but the task of stimulating thought and discussion in the Houses has been left to very occasional common room orators. As a partial remedy to this oversight, the Debating Council's plan to organize House Debating teams is worth serious consideration...
...Olympics it was a significant fact that swimming ranked next to track as the leading international sport. Of the four consistently outstanding college swimming teams in America, two Ohio State and Michigan, give swimming the status of a major sport. Yale gives it a partial major rating, but, Harvard, although its teams have often equalled any in the country in ability and achievement, does not recognize swimming as a major...