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...further announcement about the new plan for a June "Quarter Day", the College Office made it plain yesterday that men in danger of disciplinary action as a result of June grades, will have an opportunity to present their cases to the Administrative Board, but will not actually plead their cases in person before that body...
...extension of the "Quarter Day" plan to include final examination rulings, as announced yesterday, is a part. It is just that students who are content with low grades should be disciplined. But it is also just that students who have received low grades should be given an opportunity to plead any extenuating circumstances which may be responsible...
...doubtless degenerate in a very short time into a propaganda bureau with the sole object of keeping the defending party in and the besieging party put. It probably would not even be successful, to that extent. Actions speak louder than words. If an Administration has been successful, "virtues will plead like angels trumpet-tongued". And conversely, if its wares are worthless, no amount of salesmanship will be effective in dumping them on the community...
...many children have wept at the sight of poor little Oliver Twist dragging his emaciated shanks across Dickens's pages to plead for more soup! Or have wailed to see Jackle Coogan doing the same across the silver shest. The modern Oliver asks once and if the soup is not forthcoming, he lets drive at the cook with the soup bowl. At Yale there are five hundred modern Oliver in the freshman class. For some time they have been writing polite protests against the rule that freshmen must eat at the Commons, along with complaints about the quality and quantity...
...Moscow government has not yet made any statement as to how it will spend the credits accruing from the huge sales of grain. No country has reported a Bolshevik order for agricultural tools or for cattle, which would be the only justification that they could plead for depriving their unfortunate citizens of their daily bread. On the other hand, the Bolsheviki are very busy talking about war and explaining to the world the significance of the Ruhr, Memel, Vilna. At the fifth anniversary of the formation of the Red Army, Trotzky, Minister of War, said: "We want peace, but nobody...