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...takes, for example, many good fiddlers to make a great one. The Flonzaleys play excellently well, yet if the alacrity of their 40 fingers were compressed into a single hand, if the sweetness that shakes from their four wooden boxes were in a single tone, only then would their plural be equal to a certain famed singular. Recently, that singular got off a boat. He, Fritz Kreisler, "World's Greatest Violinist," had come to the U. S. for a concert tour...
Final debate on the bill passed off without untoward incident. On a motion supported by several Fascist Deputies representing workmen, a provision for plural voting for certain classes of men was deleted. The objection to this section of the bill was that its effect would be to reduce the suffrage of the workingmen...
...Straton were to show logically why monogamy is preferable to a system of plural marriages, or for what reasons he has adopted his conception of God, there could be no quarrel with his methods. The mistakes of rational beings must be attacked with reason, not with dogmatism. The conviction grows that a religious attitude that stubbornly refuses to face the facts of a new social order can hope for few converts in an age of scientific progress. The present generation is no whit less interested in religion than the age of Calvin, but it cannot countenance a religious attitude which...
...ballots on which the undergraduates will vote today list only four candidates, Coolidge, Davis, La Follette, and Foster. Voters may write in the names of any of the three other candidates if they so desire. The ballots must be signed for checking purposes and to prevent plural voting. The names of the voters in connection with their vote will be kept strictly confidential. Undergraduates are also requested to state in the space provided whether or not they are twenty-one years of age or over. This is for the purpose of ascertaining the percentage of eligible voters in the University...
...Yalensis" or "Tiga"? To save it from such a fate voting is being held dally in the CRIMSON Building, 14-20 Plympton street. Votes are now selling at the low figure of 10 cents each; there is no limit to the number of ballots one may cast, for plural voting is allowed and repeaters encouraged...