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University Hall awaits the outcome with the deepest suspense. This quarrel is regarded as the barometer of Harvard's fortunes outside of New England, and may result in crossing off much geographical cross-section if Harvard succumbs to oblivion in Virginia. But we feel that if Harvard's teachings are alien to Virginia traditions something should be done about it right away. It is an unnatural state of affairs...
...They were obliged to absorb a $2 a gal. tax which the Legislature last month put upon all liquor stored in the state. This tax was bitterly contested by Schenley Distillers Corp. who had most of the liquor stocks in the state -6,500,000 gal. Last week the quarrel was settled at the expense of the consumer when the Liquor Board got the company to drop its lawsuit by agreeing to buy all its supply for 80? more a gal. than the prevailing wholesale price...
...Faith in God may be a thoroughly scientific attitude, even though we may be unable to establish the correctness of our belief. Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are as his children. Not that science in any way shows such a relationship . . . but the evidence for an intelligent power working in the world which science offers does make such a postulate plausible...
...childhood sweetheart. Cousin Preston Kendrick (Reed Brown Jr.). Humiliated when she finds that, tired of waiting, he has already married a demure Yankee girl, Miss Julie behaves without regard for decency or decorum. She inveigles a young hot-head named Buck Buckner into picking a quarrel with Preston, hoping that they will duel and that Preston will be pinked. Instead, Preston's young brother (Owen Davis Jr.) shoots Buck Buckner dead. At this point a touch of speakeasy dialect slips into the Dixie murmurings of Playwright Owen Davis. One of the guests at Twin Oaks looks straight at Miss...
Fortnight ago, Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot of the Smithsonian began new 'negotiations to get the Wright plane back in the U. S. He would let Orville Wright write his own label if only the Museum might have the ship. For mediator of the old quarrel Dr. Abbot proposed Colonel Lindbergh, whose Spirit of St. Louis hangs permanently at the Smithsonian...