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Here the modern Mercury paused to read a postcard from Carcassonne, France, but as all he could see was "Having a swell time, wish you were here," he discarded it into a mailbox and shouldered his bag anew. "That is the trouble with education; they try to fill you full of a lot of stuff that never will do you any good. I suppose Greek and Latin are going to help you make money, or Shakespeare to do a good job delivering letters? My son isn't going to take any of that stuff--he's going to take practical...
...college awoke. Gossip carried the news of the revived CRIMSON throughout the student body and town. Well! . . HM! . . Well! Well! . . . So the dead have arisen! "His clubs were "like fabled grains of sand; but the Political Club, the Social Service society, and the Memorial society are carefully added to swell the list...
...sent from Mount Holyoke College, where 42 delegates have been working on the agenda. The Wellesley group in next in size, with 36 women as delegates and six representing the Wellesley "News". Smith follows with 30. A large influx of unofficial observers and interested faculty members is expected to swell the numbers of the meeting considerably above the limits of the Assembly proper, which consists of some 300 members. It is expected that the seating capacity of Alumnae Hall, Pembroke's large new auditorium, will be taxed to the utmost in order to accommodate the entire assemblage. Students will descend...
...reorganization. Agricultural colleges are the logical nucleus for the development of such a movement. Certainly the examples of cultural state colleges in the west should suffice to convince them that they can perform no comparable service by the adoption of an A.B. degree. Such a course would tend to swell the growing number of the educated unemployed who have long since discovered that a sheepskin may cover a shorn lamb...
Over the horizon from California in the long swell of the Pacific rocked the clock-faced fighting tops of nine battleships of the Battle Force (Pennsylvania, California, New York, Oklahoma, Nevada, Tennessee, Colorado, Maryland, West Vir-ginia). Their radios were ominously silent and they did not come alone. Trailing in their wake was the naval sinew which complements the nation's mightiest sea arm. Jauntily steamed four light cruisers (Omaha, Cincinnati, Concord, Detroit). Rolling porpoise-wise came 24 destroyers. Like sluggish metal fish, six submarines crawled along with decks awash. Plowing forward in the procession were the Lexington...