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There are several veteran players left from last year's team to stiffen the new Varsity team. George E. Enos '37, Captain, Charles S. Bellows '37, Lowis A. McGowan, Jr. '38, and Norman Mendelson '38, all members of last year's team, will be playing again this year...
...Passed the Copeland Food & Drugs bill which would stiffen the provisions of the present law by including cosmetics under its provisions, forbidding false advertising as well as labeling, etc.-but not stiffening the law in enough respects to satisfy earnest reformers. Sent it to the House...
...Chicago makes his contribution in the proposed "shock-absorber" institution of the four-year senior high school-junior college combination, after which those really fitted for higher education would be permitted to acquire it. Starting with the small colleges of the East, a movement is now on to stiffen the requirements for admission. Throughout the West there is the inclination toward a return to discipline and an abandonment of the "cafeteria" plan of education established by President Eliot. America has the choice of giving up mere mass-production in education or suffering the lowered standards which such a system makes...
Rudyard Kipling lies a-mouldering in his grave, but last week his words were again on the march. Crowds gathered, as always, to watch the parade go by, to stiffen with small-boy excitement at the drums and tramplings of the military band. Kipling's last parade petered out before the finish, for death had halted it; but there were enough of his veterans in the march-past to give the cheering crowds the old thrill. Even his many enemies watched curiously as the late great Rudyard Kipling, eyes right, steel pen at the salute as always, passed himself...
Whether or not Yogis can "induce cataleptic rigidity in a limb or in the whole body" is irrelevant here: it would require not even an "unbelievably strong" man to stiffen sufficiently for the purposes of this trick; nor would he need to "cut adrift from this world and concentrate on the spiritual life to the exclusion of all else." RAYMOND BLAIR...