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...Secretary then informed reporters that he could tell them nothing more because it took so long to decode Admiral Williams' messages that before one could be decoded another arrived. One report, when finally decoded, was found so terrifying that Mr. Kellogg withheld it from the public to avoid undue alarm...
...problems of immigration has at last received official attention and seems likely of solution. The Stobbs bill now before the House of Representatives aims to avoid in future some of the cases of individual hardship that have been incurred from time to time under the hard and fast rulings necessary to control the rush of foreigners to this country. One of the most recent instances of the sort was the admission of an alien whose permits were satisfactory while his wife, American born, was detained by officials under a technically. The Stobbs proposal purposes to deal with difficult situations...
...first sight such a policy might seem inequitable, but it is provided that the qualifications for admission will remain unaltered while the number of immigrants will not be enlarged. It is pointed out that every year some 2000 certificates remain unused. How better could they be applied than to avoid the shortcomings of necessary provisions? The mechanics of immigration regulations is a matter for experts, but the most inexperienced can appreciate an effort to introduce a measure of discretion to problems where an Iron-clad ruling cannot fall, sometimes to be unfair...
...have known ever since where Quincy Street was.) No, that little book was a good thing;--wonder what else the Phillips Brooks House Association does? Still quaking in its several boots at the thought of the glassy stare, that mysterious organization decides to answer this question, reveal all, and avoid the necessity of a break in relations with the Lampoon...
...Academic grooves echo the charge that Catholic colleges are dogmatically prejudiced in their handling of new scientific discoveries and theories. Professors in these institutions, the charge continues, whose duty it is to truly illumine the mind of the knowledge-seeking youth, avoid the unbiased truth as they would a plague. An honest examination of a representative Catholic college curriculum will dissipate even so hoary an opinion in the mind of the honest seeker of truth. It is well, however, at times to be rallied out of our smugness and take the field aggressively against our talkative foe and Holy Cross...