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...your judgment is final," said John L. Lewis, " this Conference may as well adjourn, sine die, here...
Yesterday at noon the Sixty-seventh Congress assembled in extra session to "clean up the odds and ends" of important legislation before the fourth of next March when it adjourns sine die. The present session with the regular one in December represents the last stand of the departing gladiators...
Among the most important specifications of a Harvard theatre would be a roomy stage and extensive apparatus for lighting--the latter, especially, beings a sine the qua non to the fullest realization of the possibilities of modern stage affects. Since both the Dramatic Club and the Workshop would produce all their plays at the theatre, while Pi Eta and Hasty Pudding would also have an opportunity for larger public performances when they so desired, it should in no sense be a monumental ornament useful only once or twice a year. More over, in view of the decreased building costs, that...
...University reader exempt from this classification. Theoretically we should furnish an approximation to that ideal public which the journalists claim is the sine qua non of an ideal newspaper; practically we are among the consistent devotees of the scare headline; we, too, are afflicted with the prurient curiosity" mentioned by Mr. Storey. Yet the fact that the more stable journals find a considerable sale in the University indicates that we read the lurid sheets for amusement rather than for information...
...candlestick makers who either drain the paternal pocket-book dry or else put in all their spare time doing odd jobs in order to get the wherewithal. But one of these groups--usually against their will--gets dragged into the newspapers, or else frequents places where money is sine qua non. The other sort nobody sees or hears of. And so Princeton becomes a sanitarium for weary week-enders and Harvard a millionaires' club. A chance for an Extension course in Logic...