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...before he has begun preparation for exams, for the accomplishment of any substantial amount of reading. Some large courses, therefore, merely expect preparation for the midyear; others assign sporadic reading, which only scratches the surface of the subject. And of course many science and elementary courses continue in full blast right up to the examinations, preventing the undergraduate from obtaining that feeling of leisure and repose which is the prelude of real self-education. Again, the Philosophy department, among others, straddles the fence, assigning outside reading while retaining the pre-vacation routine...
...sseldorf is grimy, hard and real, a city of 500,000 working souls, a mechanized inferno where the Gates of Hell turn out to be only blast furnaces. Last week in this German Pittsburgh baffled detectives and frightened citizens were enacting a tense, bewildering drama, macabre and outrageous...
...present personnel," Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon, had not had a good night's sleep for a week before the Borah blast. It was not the problems of Prohibition that kept him awake, however, but rough seas in the Bahamas whither he had cruised aboard the yacht Vagabondia. Putting in to San Juan, Porto Rico, Secretary Mellon got some rest at a hotel...
Many a political ear last week was cocked toward the White House, expecting President Hoover to say something to blast the insidious pretensions of this sugar lobby. Unable to endure the White House silence longer, Congressman John Nance Garner of Texas, House Democratic leader, finally blurted out a demand...
...shaft of the mine slopes down 3,500 ft. The three miners rescued alive were working on an upper level. Below, the workings were choked with wreckage and deadly gas. Miners blamed sparks from an electric coal-cutting machine for the blast...