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That apparently timeless evil of the House system, its numerical inadequacy, will persist in spite of any juggling of rents. But the Masters have, at least on paper, cleaned out some of the unfairness which has been without intention a part of the old system of assigning rooms. Prices will in the future be on a more even keel among the Houses and students may allow themselves more than a fervent hope of getting what they want for what they...
Next speaker to take the stump was sleepy-eyed Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye himself. Said he: "Should the United States refuse to understand the real intention of Japan, Germany and Italy, and persist in challenging them in the belief that the pact among them represents a hostile action, there will be no other course open to them than...
Carriers, the doctors went on, infect their wives after a "socalled sulfanilamide cure," make "absolutely symptomless carriers" of them too. How long the stubborn germs persist, how they can be conquered, the doctors do not know...
...trust the Government spent 93% on "administrative costs." Every stratagem was worked to acquire for white use key lands along watercourses without which the surrounding territory was useless. In 1887 Indians held 139,000,000 acres, in 1933 47,000,000, much of it arid. Rural slums grew (and persist) near the agencies, where Government rations float the Indians just above starvation. As for the rich "oil royalty" Indians (Tixier's Osages) they amount to less than "one per cent of a people thousands of whom would look upon a hundred dollars a year as a substantial raise." Basis...
Other Friedman paintings are as sharp and simple, more cheerful. In subject they range from parkways to flower pieces, snowscapes to ball games. Though he once studied art at night school under Robert Henri (George Bellows, Guy Péne du Bois, Rockwell Kent were fellow students), critics persist in calling him a primitive. Arnold Friedman does not mind much. "A primitive," says he, "is one who does not avail himself of the known tricks and is roundly scorned by those who recently have picked up the newest ones...