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...usually surprised when it learns that the Filipinos are Christians and have been for a early four centuries. The Filipines were Christianized by the Spanish monks in the sixteenth century and the thoroughness of the work of these Spanish ecclesiastics is testified to by the fact that today 95 percent of the entire populace are devout Catholics. We are the only nation in Asia which professor Christianity as its chief religion...
...ballots must be marked and returned in the addressed envelope which is included with them, to Thayer Cummings '26, chairman of the Sophomore election committee at 77 Mt. Auburn Street before midnight tomorrow. Provided that 60 percent of the class has voted by that time, the elections will be announced Wednesday morning. Otherwise it will be necessary to prolong the voting until the necessary number of voters has been obtained...
...long been a source of inconvenience and delay in class elections, may be abolished before next year's elections, it is hoped by members of the Election Committee. The Executive Committee of the Student Council has already suggested that Section 10 of Article III in the Constitution 60 percent of any Sophomore class, must participate in the elections to Make them valid, be annulled. This recommendation of the Student Council has been-placed on the 1926 ballots in referendum form...
...Freshman team performed 100 percent perfect as far as the score was concerned, for it carried away the first five places and with them the meet 15 to 54. Swede, the Crimson captain, led the pack at the finish by 45 seconds in 23m. 25s., while all four of his team-mates who placed arrived on the scene within a minute of his appearance at the last red flag...
...menu of the first-class dining room, he reports, is printed in French and intelligible to only two percent of those who use it; while that of the third class, being printed in English, is quite unintelligible to the foreign immigrants. Although the second class menu is not mentioned, it must be concocted of some fearful kind of pigeon English. At any rate the advantage of a proper equipment of French is easily apparent. One at once belongs to the very exclusive group of those who understand what they are ordering. Thus one avoids such an embarrasing faux...