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...Freshman dormitories, which now house practically every Freshman living in Cambridge, do a great service insofar as they tend to unify the class as no other system could. But the danger is that continual contact among themselves will make Freshmen gregarious. It is the sincere desire of the Student Advisory Committee to make Freshmen feel that they are a part of Harvard College, and not merely a part of the Freshman class...
...with elegance; he did not believe that a person of quality need handle a railroad less gracefully than he would a cravat. His cigars, acumen, and the atmosphere of success and imported cologne that enveloped his person charmed all the southerners with whom he had occasion to come in contact. But he made one blunder. He quarreled with Mr. Harriman, was fired...
Commerce, the great leveler of national and even racial animosities, brought Jew, Mohammedan and Christian once more into friendly contact with Negro, Caucasian and Nordic last week. Meanwhile many a Chamber of Commerce was vexed by the 700-year-old success of the city fathers of Leipzig in making of their fair the annual conflux of traders from 50 nations...
...Hudson's Bay Co., British joint stock association, which from 1670 to 1859 held exclusive exploitation rights in what is now Canada, still endures. It still remains the sole contact with civilization which many a far north community has. Last week it acquired the trading rights of Moravian missionaries among the grim fishermen of Labrador, bleak 400-mile fringe of northeast North America. Recent explorations indicate that the Labrador hinterland holds high hydro-electric power stores...
...women fainting, men shoving and grunting, when Pilot Alan Cobham hove in sight last week over Melbourne, at the end of his flight in a seaplane from England. The ovation far outdid the holiday mood indulged in last fortnight by Port Darwin, Cobham's first point of contact with the kangaroo continent (TIME, Aug. 16). The motors of his big De Havilland ship were examined, found in flawless condition after a month and a half of droning through all temperatures, humidities and aridities, from the English Channel, over the Dolomites, Syria and Arabia, the Indian Ocean, New South Wales...