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...Chemistry has not been curtailed and tutorial will probably be up to the same standards as this year. The story is the same in Physics, where minor slices in faculty and tutorial will account for the decrease in funds. In none of these fields has the draft taken toll of the faculty...
Although the recent 10% budget cut takes proportionately the same toll of the smaller fields of concentration as the larger, Anthropology, German, and History and Literature have all avoided drastic curtailments in scholastic quality by judicious paring all but faculty costs...
...Northern Pacific locomotive groped into Pembina, N. Dak. The crew discovered they had struck Mike Howry's daughter, had been dragging her body along on the pilot. Searchers found the frozen body of the girl's sister near Mike's home. The storm's toll: at least 68 dead...
Terese Armstrong, 23-year-old British Legation stenographer, had also lost an arm, but death did not come to her for more than 30 hours. Instantly killed were four Turks, two of them hotel porters. The toll of wounded was 30. British First Secretary James Lambert was badly burned, slightly cut. When Minister Rendel came bounding down the Pera Palace stairs to see what all the noise and smoke was about he found his private secretary, Miss Gertrude Ellis, bleeding from serious wounds. His daughter and Legation Hostess, Ann Rendel, 21, had been knocked down by the force...
Model for the new bond campaign is the Liberty Bond drives of World War I, when the U. S. raised a spectacular $21,439,000,000 in 24 months. But some tricks of World War I's drives will be pointedly omitted. This time no church bells will toll as a "dirge for slackers"; no "four-minute men" will yell at pedestrians through megaphones; no persistent Boy Scouts will push doorbells; no grisly posters will scare moppets. This time the Treasury will avoid high-pressure salesmanship, lure savings by a simple but fast-moving patriotic appeal. Some details...