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...best suited for a dam site. With just such a dam in mind, England has made a recent treaty with Ethiopia stating that neither government could alter the water supply without the consent of the other. As no treaty exists between England and Italy, it is evident that the fate of the Nile valley would rest entirely with the Italians should they subdue the Ethiopian government...
...most deplorable misconception of the average young instructor is that Fate has destined him to achieve the illustrious rank of "Harvard Institution". As if the Copelands and Kittredges did not amply fill their roles of arch-indiosyncrasists in University life, the humble section man aspires, very unwisely, to work up through the intermediate grade of Temperamental Professor and supply the lack of eccentricity among the Gods of Learning...
Monday's opening performance was none too smooth but with a bit more practise Cardini should get his lines in hand and then the play can settle down to meet its fate. If you can satisfy yourself with Cardini's tricks you will have a good bit of diversion...
...victims of fate perhaps the saddest is the upperclassman who has failed to gain admittance to a house. Refused entrance at the very gates of heaven he is forced to wander alone and unwanted through eternity. Even more of a misfit than the long-forgotten commuters, his presence is hardly recognized by the university which he alleges to be his alma mater...
Adams missed the thrill of anticipation that has become part and parcel of a year's residence in Cambridge; the thrill of horror before the perennial epidemic of German measles: the sense of being a pawn in the hands of fate as the onslaught sweeps unchecked from House to House...