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...advised a seminary graduating class to marry and thus avoid domestic discord: "Take my case for instance. My wife handles the minor problems and I the major ones. No trouble ever breaks out; not a major problem ever arises...
During these crucial moments last week, Vice-President Siegfried Vonkardorff rose before the Reichstag and sternly requested all members to cease sitting without their coats to avoid lowering the dignity of that body. Solemnly did the members debate whether a temperature of 88° justified their making themselves comfortable, decided in the negative...
...betting commissioner then books bets, the limit being 100 ticals ($44). Bettors who wish to avoid the 10% house commission make side wagers, sometimes involving wives, houses, livestock...
Last week the National Geographic Society reported that its South American survey plane was cruising from Miami to Havana when: "Pilot Hawkins, to avoid an angry black cloud, veered to port. Then, to our amazement, there quickly dropped from the north end of the storm cloud a thin writhing black column of a waterspout. In a few seconds, as we watched, it grew into a black, whirling corkscrew at least 600 feet high and probably 50 feet or more in diameter. ... As it grew in size ... it took the shape and appearance of a great snake, spray and mist rising...
More moderate critics regard the House Plan as a move which will, by various checks and balances, avoid either of these extremes. Little is safe to predict other than that the housing quarters will be newer than the present dormitories, the Yard will no longer be the center of domiciliary attraction, the restaurants on the Square will lose money, the Houses will supplant the classes in intra-mural rivalry, the members of the undergraduate body and the faculty will be in a more favorable position for the development of mutual understanding, and real estate prices on the Charles will rise...