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...wife, who is very beautiful, managed to advertise his wealth ostentatiously, and thereby aroused more jealousy, criticism and suspicion. When the revolution became a fait accompli, Don Alba was in San Sebastian, on the Franco-Spanish border, but he rapidly crossed the frontier to Biarritz in order to avoid arrest. The National Directorate charged him with...
Freshman, your advisors, as you already know, are manifold. Not to mention fond parents and sophisticated friends in the Sophomore Class you have been assigned Faculty Advisors and Student Advisors, who will descend upon you like the "wolf on the fold" and whom you cannot avoid except by strategy worthy of a Focheor a Hindenburg. Finally there are the Proctors who are to hold office hours this year and of whom a wag has said that they will act not merely as counsellors and friends but as spiritual advisors as well...
...exist." Western Reserve with its nine students in the hands of the police after a snake dance and Yale with its mass probation as the result of a Freshman dining hall riot, may be forced to adopt such a method; perhaps Harvard in its provincialism may be able to avoid accepting it for some years to come...
...year plus the $7 Infirmary fee falls due today. The bills will be given to students at the time of their registration. The Bursar has recommended that these bills be paid in by mail to the Harvard Trust Company instead of in person in order to save time and avoid crowding. A fine of $5 will be charged for late payment...
Thus Germany appeared to admit that she was beaten in the Ruhr fight. In effect, however, nothing of the sort occurred. Reports indicated that Chancellor Stresemann made the cessation of passive resistance " a gesture " to satisfy French honor and to avoid prolonging the struggle indefinitely. An Allied conference, to which Germany will be invited, will be called in the near future...