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...sits in the back cannot hear the band, hesitates at the start, and finally chimes in with the man next to him. Later on he finds that he and those around him are far behind time. There are two ways of avoiding this. Let the song-leader adopt two perfectly definite gestures, the first one to get us set, and the second to "shoot". A little practice would teach us to recognize these, and to fall in with them instinctively. The second remedy, a simpler one, is to have the cornets turn towards the cheering section, after they...
...Steffens stated that the Revolution was a step into the future, and that, although we might not adopt its principles, there was much that we could learn from it. As an example of this he cited the case of industrial control by the workers. It was tried in Russia, and proven unsuccessful, so that the Communists reverted to strict regulation of industry by those fitted to handle it. We are still experimenting with industrial democracy, he said...
...fact that Harvard should adopt such a measure appears strange to many of us undergraduates among whom the American language has become generally used. The prevalence of slang is so common to most of us that the speaker of pure English almost needs a code in order to carry on a conversation with...
Press reports received recently in this country state that Guatemala has decided to abandon the use of subsidiary coins made of hard rubber, and is to adopt coins of German manufacture which are to be made of porcelain. No longer can the spendthrift Guatemalan carelessly toss his extra pesos to the street urchins, knowing that if they fail to catch them on the fly they will get them on the rebound; now, alas, the coins upon striking the paving will be shattered into a thousand pleces, valueless as a means of exchange and effective only in puncturing automobile tires...
...decided at the meeting to adopt a regular constitution next fall and to hold a banquet during October or November. Definite plans were also made for entertaining the thirty Andover track men who will be in Cambridge for the Interscholastics this Saturday, thirty University-Andover men being assigned to this task. Each will take care of one schoolboy. In addition it was especially emphasized that as many former Andover men at the University as possible should return to the school for Class Day, June...