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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...average concentrator in the field of bio-chemistry, must take several courses with laboratory work and in many of these the number of hours per week is nearer twelve than nine. It is not too much to say that more than half of the afternoons in his last two years will find him in the laboratory. Who can blame him for a hollow laugh if one mentions the "other advantages" of College life? To be sure, his evenings may be free, but that is the time when the men he would find most value in associating with are doing their...
...Reichsbank raised the discount rate from 6 1-2 to 7 1-2 per cent yesterday, according to reports from Berlin. This is declared to be an attempt, belated say the French, to check the outflow of gold from Germany which has been going on with increasing strength since the bank rate was lowered from 7 to 6 1-2 per cent, in January...
...truth it is, indeed, but rarely that the Vagabond has the good fortune to encounter humor of this type: certainly it would scarcely be appropriate for example in the echoing halls where a bronze Emerson stares through the dusky gloom. And, lest some should say that he has descended wholly from the "quality group" literarily or intellectually he will hasten to suggest the following lectures to those whom let us say the spring, has made less frivolously minded...
Dean Donham of the Business School being out of town, Assistant Dean D.W. Malott was asked late last night to make a statement concerning Representative Hagan's attack and made the following remarks: "In accordance with the usual policy of the University authorities. I have nothing to say about the matter. I do not care to make any statement whatsoever...
...Churchill insists that "all the opinions expressed are purely personal and commit no one but myself." Far from expecting tact in the pronouncements of his public men, the Englishman relishes spirited aspersions hurled from high office. Especially does he expect "Winnie" Churchill, proverbial playboy - poohbah of British politics - to say his bitter say against Americans and Bolsheviks, and to sing his little song for whatever policy is momentarily...