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...pirates because their vocabularies are so limited that they have no other means of expression". After all, this reflection on one's vocabulary is only a sly shot at the college author fair target but there are certainly occasions, which Dr. Fitch neglects, on which anything but solid, sturdy. Anglo-Saxon profanity would be inappropriate and since these occasions are by no means rare in college days, proficiency in the art should be a point of pride. It is a poor compliment to the college man that his best awarding should be likened to the rude, uneducated and really embryonic...
...English Department, several marked changes are included in the new provisional elective pamphlet for next year. These revisions include the abolition of "snap", composition courses and the alteration of the instruction in English literature so that there will be a course to cover every period from Anglo-Saxon times up to the present...
...other important point in the new system is the chronological arrangement in which the literature courses are to be arranged, instead of the haphazard potpourri which they represent at present. By guaranteeing that no important period of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the present will be neglected, the faculty of the department makes possible a much more nearly perfect grasp of the development of literature, and incidentally guides the student toward the natural preparation for English divisionals. If this same system could be carried over to other departments, notably that of History, another perceptible advance would be achieved...
...Philip Snowden, Chancellor of the Exchequer, denied that, in appointing a committee to reconsider the British national debt, the Govern-ment had any intention of altering the Anglo-American debt funding settlement...
With the undoubted connivance of the French, the Separatists (those who favor an entirely independent State) have been in control of the whole area since last November and much blood has been shed. At one time the whole affair seriously threatened Anglo-French relations, but, despite British investigations, the Separatists remained...