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...have again taken an ambitions step, and a supreme test of their capabilities, with sweeping success. Though the play is largely propaganda for calm, clear thinking about the social and industrial conditions of the day--leading one to think more of its significance than its production--its message and effect could easily be distorted were it not given the well-balanced, understanding handling for which Mr. Jewett and his company are becoming recognised...
...recent years for a variety of reasons--lack of publicity, the disrupting effect of the war, etc., the work has not proved very extensive, but with the plans for this year firmly laid, a larger scope and activity is expected...
...case of a tie. The change may come either in the form of a recommendation from the rules committee, that, before the game, the two teams shall agree to play an overtime period in case of a tie, or in the form of a definite rule to this effect. Some people may say that such a rule as this would be hard on small colleges, which have not a large number of substitutes, but I can't remember a game where there were not at the end some substitutes who had not played. In fact, this...
...people had been warned, and had accepted the warning, that there would be a general decline of prizes, the present condition would not exist. Last year, whether intentionally or not, the farmers of the country were led to expect that the prices which were in effect at that time would continue through the present year, and as a result, they paid prices for their labor and material which would allow them a profit only if these pirces did continue. Now, however, the nations of Europe cannot afford to buy our surplus, and as a result of this overproduction, food prices...
Entertaining as this club for such it now seems may be to its members, its detrimental effect on the nerves and scholarly intentions of those vainly attempting to "cram" at immediate tables should recommend the emphatic and quite justifiable advice to "go hire a hall." We can scarcely tolerate the existence of an association which so deliberately ignores not merely the rules of the library but the basic elements of human courtesy. "What are you doing tonight, Bill?"--"Going to 'study,' I guess."--"All right, meet you up at the table at 7.30." This would appear to be the formula...