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...statement about the squash courts of the University Mr. Bingham admitted that the main problem was "a plain lack of courts." He does not refer to courts in the Houses, but to courts for members of the Graduate Schools and for those members of the College who do not live in the Houses. That there is a definite need for more squash courts for those members of the University who are not residents of the Houses is undoubtedly the case...
...doesn't smoke, he no doubt has other expensive habits. Scientific tests have proved that dog-owning children have a 50% better chance of growing up into honest, thoughtful citizens. And would Mr. Butler deprive thousands of lonely city people of their only companions? I refer, particularly, to "old maids" and bachelors in strange cities, to say nothing of invalids. Of course there is no need to call attention to the hundreds of useful farm, police and hunting dogs...
...have been that Scot Mac-Donald is suffering from "cerebral anemia" or brain fatigue. Even the cautious Times has discussed the subject guardedly. Recently at Oxford, extremely polite Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, lecturing on "The Machinery of Government," created a sensation by the following remarks which were understood to refer to Scot MacDonald, though Lord Cecil did not mention his name: "Too many [Prime Ministers] have appeared to lose the faculty of decision. That seems to be one of the faculties that wear out soonest. To decide makes a considerable strain on the nervous force and the strain increases with...
With the impending election of a new president of the University a topic of interest, it is interesting to note the method of electing the president and how it has applied in the elections of Presidents Eliot and Lowell. The nomination must come from the Corporation, who refer their choice to the Overseers for a concurrent vote. Due to the absence of some of the members of the Corporation, it is considered unlikely that the choice of a new president will be acted upon before February or March...
...Century elegance. Port Royal has 60 old buildings, most of them built soon after the Revolutionary War. In their shadow there is genteel marketing, churchgoing, scampering of children. Oldsters gabble of huntin' and fishin', aware that nothing much else has happened there since the conflict which they refer to as the War Between the States. Impecunious, somnolent, dignified, Port Royal would be just the place for a company of scholars with little money but much bookish fervor, and last week that was just what began to assemble there...