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Bright college years will come to a close for the Class of 1935 with a strenuous week of festivity beginning June 15, and with the Baccalaureate Sermon in the Memorial Church, sweeping up to the grand finale of the Commencement Exercises on Thursday morning...
Prancing up to the Free City of Danzig* last week, the whole gaudy galaxy of Adolf Hitler's be-uniformed henchmen- Goring, Hess, Goebbels, Streicher, Biirckel ct al.-had the time of their strenuous lives. In three short years local Danzig Nazis have whipped up the quaint, long-slumbering Free City into a frenzied "Little Teutonia." Last week came the crux of a Danzig election deliberately forced by Nazis. They already had a working majority in the Danzig Diet but needed a two-thirds majority to scrap Danzig's democratic Constitution, crush rival parties and subjugate the Jews...
...company which accounts for less than 1% of the total U. S. automobile business, Hupp Motor Car Corp. makes an astonishing amount of financial news. For several years most of the news concerned the strenuous efforts of Archie Moulton Andrews, Hupp's biggest stockholder, to oust the old management. By last autumn Mr. Andrews was safely intrenched in the Hupp offices as board chairman, but peace failed to follow. Just as strenuous efforts were promptly launched to oust Mr. Andrews. And by last week the shrewd, breezy archpromoter, who does most of his work in a labyrinth of lawsuits...
...precious and uplifting as the tender, wakeful participation with the birds." Her description of Taos scenery and climate, especially from her window, are lingeringly loving. But life in a New Mexican ranch house, however comfortably fixed up, is fraught with more than contemplation. Chatelaine Luhan finds it strenuous: "For every single time I have to attend to anything, whether it's a horse, or a telegram from goodness knows who, or a hole in the wall, or getting the windows washed, it is a distinct effort, like climbing a hill. . . ." When she can occasionally take...
This afternoon's debate will be the last of the many held this term, most of which were broadcast. Activities of the spring will be strenuous, with tryouts for the Hawaiian and the Harvard-Yale-Princeton triangular debates being held on he first evening after the Easter vacation. Postponement of these tryouts became necessary when Edward M. Rowe '25, director of debating was suddenly called out of town on urgent business...