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...farm bill which the farm bloc desired. And, while he has not signed any of the bills which the farm bloc did not want, he has never offered any plan of relief. He has confined himself to advising farmers to cooperate on their own initiative. Hitherto, the President has avoided vetoing a farm bloc bill by using his influence to kill the bill in Congress. Last week it became clear that he could no longer avoid the personal issue...
...this period of flux in the evolution of the college curriculum that before any racial or important changes can be effective in higher education the ground must be fully prepared in the primary, and, more specifically, in the secondary schools. For purposes of effective cooperation in order to avoid those dangerous pitfalls which yawn for the incoming Freshman whenever the purposes of school and college diverge even slightly from the parallel, no finer means could be devised than such a conference as this where discussion is carried on before the background of a college in active movement...
...Immortality Necessary? Can We Avoid It?" is the subject of the first lecture of the second part of this year's series, and will be delivered by Dr. Frederic Palmer '69, editor of the Harvard Theological Review, Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The following Sunday "Philosophy of Religion" will be the subject of a lecture by Professor James H. Woods '87, Chairman of the University Department of Philosophy, and on March 2, Professor James B. Pratt '99, Professor of Philosophy, Williams College, will discuss "Faith and Worship...
...unweaned radicals. But examination proves it to be no more than a tardy sanity. "No more Reforms" signifies nothing, since reforms in the best sense result only from a desire to remove evils, and even the cheeriest optimist cannot hope to forestall all corruptions. The News' resolve to avoid platforms is praiseworthy, only because such platforms are usually a collection of meaningless sentences...
...chartered a sampan, and after no few experiences, managed to buy ten sacks of the valuable grain from a schooner at Macao. They sailed back to Hongkong, to find the port closed. They were caught while trying to slip in after dark, and had to durop their cargo to avoid a fine...