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Herewith are excerpts from letters come to the desks of the editors during the past week. They are selected primarily for the information they contain either supplementary to, or corrective of, news previously published in TIME...
...Duke, no miser, graciously accepted. Straightway the documents were brought forth, reclassified, found to contain a priceless series of contemporary royal decrees affecting Columbus, as well as a great portion of the correspondence between the great navigator and Queen Isabella...
Herewith are excerpts from, letters come to the desks of the editors during the past week. They are selected primarily for the information they contain either supplementary to, or corrective of, news previously published in TIME...
...colored vans in country lanes now make fortunes with colored sedans from coast to coast, so the horse thief who once led stolen mares to a ready market now steers stolen Marmons to dealers in modern antiques. Indeed, the last page of the records of the Milford Society should contain, and obituary notice, not of the horse thief but of the horse, and above the seal of the society should be placed a membership card...
...meantime, before the work begins, we venture a couple of suggestions. The committee, when it is constituted, ought to be representative of the undergraduate body as a whole. It should contain one or more members drawn from each grade of the rank list. Too many undergraduate committees are "bottom heavy" from this point of view. Here is particularly a case where high-standing scholars should have adequate representation. Otherwise the committee's recommendations, whatever they may be, will be somewhat discounted in advance. And rightly so, for nobody cares what the lame ducks think about educational requirements which they have...