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...GREEN HAT-The yellow Hispano Suiza of Michael Arlen has driven up to the stage door and unloaded all its politely worthless characters...
...often that any two men regard a course in precisely the same light. If the CRIMSON desires to function as a mentor it should be able to provide something more dependable than the unsupported say-so of some individual editor who remains anonymous. To brand a course as worthless, or an instructor as incompetent, on the testimony of one student among several hundred is hardly in accord with the amenities of clean journalism or true sportsmanship...
...East. A 100,000-acre track in the Everglades set aside as a sanctuary for wild life would be a primeval forest appearing almost exactly as it did when Columbus set foot on the North American continent . . . The areas most suitable for the location of a bird sanctuary are worthless for agricultural purposes. To attempt to cut up the Big Cypress Swamp, for instance, would be like turning the Yosemite into an onion garden or Yellowstone Park into a factory town." She advocated, as wardens of such a preserve, the Seminole Indians! "They have a deep sense of the sanctity...
...Moore pointed out one inaccuracy in Mr. Minnigerode's article by telling the true story. The original article said : "And sometimes the General went away and got into trouble. He was always quarreling and vituperating and fighting . . . with Mr. Dickinson, whom he pronounced to be a worthless, drunken blackguard scoundrel, and finally killed, quite deliberately, on a May morning when the other's pistol stopped at half-cock...
Unfortunately for the A. A. H. G. M. S., however, the original mark bonds were payable in German marks, and the debtors are therefore able to fulfill their literal contract by paying them with this now worthless currency. The new bonds are in terms of U. S. gold dollars and in this respect at least stand on a different financial basis. Morally Mr. Zimmerman's protest is well taken, but legally it is fatally weak. The effect of. his action, however, is important, not only with the new Cologne dollar loan, but with a number of other dollar loans...