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Relizion was dise-tablished at Yale College when the fast compulsory chapel service was dismissed as the present examination period began. To future generations of Yale men the stories of how undergraduates leaped from deep slumber into rubber boots and ulsters and then raced desperately across the campus to be in time for morning provers will sound as unreal as tales from ancient history. Compulsory church attendance on Sunday is also a thing of the past. Religion is no longer an alarm clock. The monitor's list of present and absent sent will no more serve as a discourage...
...even if freed, would be allowed to attend or whether delegates will be able to speak freely. Some delegates were sentenced to long jail terms for criticizing the last convention, which collapsed in 1996. All this fuels the suspicion that the generals merely want the upcoming convention to rubber-stamp a constitution that would preserve their grip on power...
While Kirby has not yet officially approved the initiative, the four professors spearheading the project hope to receive Kirby’s rubber stamp and to budget plans within the next few weeks...
...victory over Vermont—this weekend will see Harvard finally get to settle into familiar territory and buckle down for the Ivy stretch. The contests taper nicely with Herrmann’s emergence as a legitimate threat, whether he’s toeing the rubber or standing at the plate...
...solution, says engineer Bob Bernhard, co-director of Purdue University's Institute for Safe, Quiet and Durable Highways, is to change not the tires but the road surface. "You can make the pavement porous," he says, "which affects the air-pumping mechanism. You can also mix a little rubber in with the asphalt, which changes the road's stiffness." Porous surfaces are already being rolled out in parts of Georgia, Florida and Arizona, as well as in Europe...