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...represent sent the farmers before the Interstate Commerce Commission to secure more favorable freight rates. Administration of the tax law should be undertaken in a liberal spirit toward farmers' cooperatives. The Tariff Commission should aggressively undertake investigations of the needs of agriculture so that there can be prompt tariff adjustments from time to time...
Last week, came the end of the war which Chi had started. Lu put Chi to flight, recaptured Shanghai, which was prompt to fall for the fourth time. Chi fled to Japan...
...much appreciated; but the "Gold Coast" must be kept for Harvard. The builder of the hotel is willing to sell the lot on reasonable terms; the student body is unanimous in insisting that such an alien building must not be planted in the path of expansion. The University awaits prompt and vigorous action by the planning board and by the authorities...
...Junto took prompt steps to recall President Alessandri from his travels in Italy. It announced a policy of "neutrality in politics," accused the old Junto of having "betrayed our confidence and maliciously deviated from our program...
...this is more or less necessary, and some of it is--for a strong boy--highly salutary; but I venture to say that hardly any of the conditions surrounding our Freshmen are incapable of improvement, and some of them need very prompt and very thorough-going improvement. It is also worth pointing out that it is the graduates of the pri- vate schools who find these conditions most upsetting, and it for them that the transition from school to college is most critical