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Such was the brief want ad in a morning paper that has kept all Randolph Hall receiving mysterious telephone calls throughout the day. It was but one of some half-dozen similar notices which have caused many a puzzled undergraduate to invent fabulous stories for the benefit of applicants. The practical joker has not been found...
...With Irwin as general, a brigade of "colyumists" will scourge Japan from end to end. And in America universal mourning will reign, for one-fourth of the national stock of jokes will have been wiped out overnight. More than a ready use of "honorables" and ability to discover, ad infinitum, names riming with "pajama" will be required of our humorists. All this and more will ensue, for the Japanese will soon speak better English than American Nordics, even from Boston...
...Both Faculty advisers ad student advisers are given a job which, if done as well as as it should be, is a heavy tax upon the patience and skill of the adviser and which, to the freshman, means more than most of us realize. Members of the Faculty who do not enjoy pouring out their time and advice liberally for the benefit of freshmen ought not to be freshman advisers. Those who are able and willing to advise freshmen skillfully and liberally ought to have their other work slightly reduced so that they might taken on more freshmen...
...means to this end. Now Secretary Wilbur proposes to make this ratio end itself. As he interprets it, so long as the United States, Great Britain, and Japan keep to the ratio, the merry race to see which can float the most tons of steel can go or ad infinitum. It has evidently not occurred to him that competitive building is useless unless it confers an advantage upon numbers. To continue to build when an established ratio makes certain that one nation will be relatively no stronger at the end than it was at the beginning, is absurdity itself...
...point of what Dr. Jeans had to say and which Professor Turner ad- mired was this: that by virtue of the theory of relativity it was estimated that the sun and other stars were not millions of years old, but millions of millions of years. Dr. Jeans hypothecated that our planetary system was produced by the collision or close approach of another star to the sun. Knowing the distance of the stars from each other, their speed of travel, and having an estimate of the length of life belonging-to stars and to our sun in particular, Dr. Jeans calculated...