Word: certain
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...have general oversight of the student calendar. Would not the appointment of a single undergraduate, with whom all organizations would be compelled to register important dates, be sufficient? By such a scheme the cumbrousness of a committee would be avoided, and ceneralization of control would be made doubly certain. The hours for all scheduled meetings and games could be entered in a book which would be placed in some conveniently located spot, always open to consultation. Naturally, the student "bookkeeper" would in no way usurp the position of the present authorities. He would have no powers of consenting or refusing...
...plus always her own enchanting, voluble self. Mr. Walton Butterfield '20, as Don Santiago, the Governor, and Mr. Harding Scholle ocC., as Don Baldomero, the Multi of Moraleda, are unforgettable characters. Manolo, the "Governor's secretary, finds in Mr. Barton Leach '22 a winning address and, except for a certain insistent springiness of motion, an excellent lover. Mr. C. S. Howard's otherwise admirable Marquis of Torrelodones is marred somewhat by an irritating resemblance to Sam Bernard. This could easily be remedied. Mr. Leonard Ware '21 looks the Toreador to a T. enriching the precession and giving it vivid authenticity...
...Senior Advisor system, as now practiced in the University, has proved of undoubted value, and has been of much benefit to Freshmen. Nevertheless, certain faults exist; and until these are removed, it is useless to hope for the best results...
Having destroyed the original Treaty, the Senate seems bent on providing us with "something just as good." But if the Knox resolution is passed by Congress, it is almost certain to be vetoed. Even in the almost inconceivable event of its final success, it can only land us in hopeless confusion at home and abroad. To attempt to employ such a substitute as this argues more than the usual degree of Senatorial unreason. As a piece of political juggling, it is altogether admirable; as constructive statesmanship, it is beneath contempt...
There have been numerous contributing influences to bring about high prices--such as the export demand for some articles, the shortage in the supply of certain raw materials, and so on. Nevertheless, the chief reason for the general rise in prices has been the inflation of credit and currency. The process of inflation, through the working of the Federal Reserve banking system, has provided a large additional buying power without a corresponding increase in production. As has always taken place under similar circumstances in the past, inflation of credit and currency has resulted in inflation in prices. The Federal Reserve...