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...history, uniformly funny and disreputable. No one thinks of Comstock today as anything but a rather bad joke, and leagues for the extirpation of communism are never patronized by capitalists of a measurable fry. The personnel of a large university, so long as they do not work explicitly, may retard the cause of social revolution with great efficiency, just as those who are successfull in the present order may retard it. But when they open their mouths to play Thor, there is nothing but a vacancy better left concealed...
Fewer & fewer people stood in lines before Red Cross relief camp kitchens in Long Beach, Calif, last week. More & more waited in cheerful queues at the Municipal Building to get building permits. No epidemic had erupted. Two minor shocks did not retard inspection of the city's gas mains, some of which were sprung by the earthquake two weeks before. Compton's main street and six blocks in Long Beach were still roped off, but elsewhere in those towns and throughout the stricken area refugees were returning to their homes as fast as the gas was turned...
...those seeking an M.A. degree to permit them to teach in a secondary school; those wishing to do further research before starting industrial work; and those training for a teaching position in a college. The members of the first and second classes far outnumber the third and tend to retard the people trying to get ahead scholastically. President Lowell's action in establishing the Society of Fellows is in part an effort toward freeing these especially gifted men from such restraint...
...Haven for the abolition of lightweight football as a stop in their retrenchment program. With the Blue team unavailable as an opponent next year, there would be no point in having a Harvard lightweight team. With these considerations in mind, the present move seems to do little else than retard the natural growth of House athletics for a year...
...counsel argued that higher education is for everyone, that Miss West, daughter of a taxpayer, had a right to hers. She won her case, but a higher court reversed the decision last December. Reason: a pupil who falls below a set standard must not be allowed to retard his fellows...