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...Every Freshman and Sophomore not on the Dean's List and every student on probation is required to attend his last College exercise before and his first College exercise after the Christmas and April recess. Every student on probation is also required to attend his last College exercise before and his first College exercise after each one-day holiday, and every student in good standing is expected to do so. However, a student in good standing will not necessarily be placed on probation for cutting before and after one-day holidays, but such cuts will weigh heavily against...
...Every Junior and Senior not on the Dean's List is expected to attend his last College exercise before and his first College exercise after each holiday and recess, but a Junior or a Senior in good standing will not necessarily be placed on probation for cutting before and after a recess or a holiday, although such cuts will weigh heavily against him if his record becomes unsatisfactory...
...they have maintained that economic slavery was nobody's business. . . . "We seek not merely to make government a mechanical implement, but to give it the vibrant personal character that is the embodiment of human charity. We are poor indeed if this nation cannot afford to lift from every recess of American life the dread fear of the unemployed that they are not needed in the world. We cannot afford to accumulate a deficit in the books of human fortitude. . . . "Governments can err-Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins...
...Congress' custom to make a farce of the term "deliberative assembly" in its last week, jam through more bills than it has passed in any previous week. But in the political year 1936 the 74th Congress, tardy because of its recess for the Republican convention and straining to be through in time for the Democratic convention, outdid most of its predecessors. Important bills enacted last week...
...Washington apartment one morning last week a heart attack brought Senator Fletcher's life to a swift close. That afternoon the House rejected the Senate's Canal amendment, 108-to-62. Next morning the Senate, convening after a recess in honor of its dead colleague, accepted the House's action without protest, let Duncan Fletcher's ditch die with...