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...from publishing in the CRIMSON the officials (and actual) date of announcing the grades, with all additional interesting data that might be safely given to the students without, betraying the "Harvard System"? This would at least permit the Seniors to arrange their plans with some degree of definiteness and avoid the demoralizing anxiety which the present day to day uncertainty produces. DONALD BOURNN...
...House, loud cries of "withdraw.") Mr. Snowden retorted: "I will follow Mr. Churchill's example and withdraw nothing." Some time before his tiff with Mr. Snowden, Mr. Churchill's attention was brought to the fact that foreign nations were "dumping" duty-free articles on the country to avoid the preference duties which are to be established by the operation of the McKenna duties oh July 1. As a warning to foreign nations and importers, he said: "If necessary, I shall not hesitate to ask for authority to antedate the new budget duties, should there be excessive importations...
...Business men should not run out of the country to avoid court subpenas. (He was understood to refer to Messrs. Blackmer, O'Neil, Osler et alii who were not in the U. S. when they were wanted at the Mammoth Oil Co. trial.) "I regard a fugitive from [court] service as second only to a fugitive from justice." (Applause...
Soul Fire is one of the monstrosities that some day will, no doubt, be displayed in a cinema museum as a terrible example of what all scenarists and directors should avoid. It sets out to tell the story of a man's soul pounding to pieces on the reefs of poverty. The first reef is Paris; the second, Port Said; finally the South Seas. It all came from a play called Great Music in which the boy finally gets leprosy and is given a year or more of life in which to finish his orchestral symphony. The cinema people...
With these restrictions, the zoo may do a land-office business in job-lots of beasts, with salutary educational effects on the fraternal brothers, many of whom do not even know what their chosen beast looks like. Prospective "brothers" may thus avoid the mistake of the Elks, who saw a moose, admired it, and, under the impression that it was an elk, named themselves after...