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...lobbies become that the legislators are beginning to doubt whether they have anything whatever to say about running the country. Accordingly the members of the Virginia house of Delegates have decided to strike a blow in their own defense, and--since it is impossible to resist the lobbyists--to avoid them. A bill is now before one of the committees to furnish each and every Delegate with a false beard and whiskers to the end that he may better avoid the sharp scrutiny of the lobbyists, and "to facilitate ingress and egress from the house without recognition...
...that members of the faculty use the same old text year after year, whether it suits their purpose or not, for some changes would be decidedly welcome at any time: we merely suggest that they would be doing us a distinct favor if they would endeavor to avoid undue fickleness in their choice of books for class work. --Michigan Daily
...division of History, Government, and Economics has taken, steps to avoid the workings of this regulation by a justifiable stratagem. According to their plan, seniors will get full course credit for their ordinary tutorial work next year. But these are not the only men who have divisionals and even these should receive the full benefit of any extra courses they may have taken before their final year in college...
...putting up with a dozen Curleys, Hylans and Thompsons for every executive of real ability like Nathan Matthews and John Purroy Mitchell. If Senator Walsh rightly interprets the sentiment of American voters, if they prefer to see college men who ought to be able to become intelligent reformers, avoid the problem, then we shall have plenty of time to keep on paying the bill for incompetency and graft...
...treated in very different ways. "The Violins of Cremona" concerns a contest among the violin makers of that city for the hand of Giannina, daughter of the old violin master, Taddeo Ferrari. Filippo, the hunchback who wins the prize, shows his heroism by nobly renouncing his victory to avoid forcing his love upon Giannina...