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...undertaken the business of preparing a bill for a comprehensive national policy in regard to our timberlands. Their program includes hearings in Washington, a trip beginning this week to Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi, more hearings in New Orleans and Washington, investigations in New England, and, finally, inspection of the timber lands of the West...
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace remains in Washington furnishing information to the special Senate Committee which is investigating timber problems in the United States. He urges greater fire protection, more replanting, and partial exemption of taxes for forest areas in order to insure the nation's lumber supply...
...supposedly serious-minded student, who hopes for a degree with distinction, is sentenced to years of hard labor on the rock-pile of the Middle Ages, before he can turn his energies to the building of his house. Even then he has only the heavy timber of the 18th century novelists, or the romantic poets, with which to raise his super structure. He very seldom gets far enough even to consider adding a roof. The natural question arises: what is the good of a house founded upon a rock, if there is no thatch of sufficient thickness to keep...
Today, compulsory athletics for Freshmen has proved its worth. It has forced some unwilling men to exercise; it has aided others who wanted to participate, but somehow or other never got around to it, until ordered. It has uncovered varsity timber in many instances; a pole-vaulter who may never before have held even a broom-stick in his hand, or a sprinter who never knew how his chasing after fire-engines in his youth had helped him for college. Compulsory Freshman athletics Las proved so beneficial that some regret that its scope is not broader; that Sophomores...
Last year in the hurdle races Thomson of Dartmouth, Krogness of the University, and Wells of Leland Stanford were the strongest men; but even with these three runners gone the timber-topping events should be as sensational as ever. In the lows, Falk of California, who captured second place last May, will run again and will need his full strength to beat Taylor of Princeton and Meyers of Rutgers. Hauers, Thayer, or Fitts may pick up a point or two for the University, while Hulman of Yale may place. Thomson, Princeton's all-around athlete, should win the highs, although...