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...often completely indifferent toward their jobs. The fault lies chiefly with the system, not with the men. A better selection, on the grounds of interest and knowledge should be made, and greater incentive in the way of financial reimbursement offered. In matters pertaining so directly to the academic fate of undergraduates the University can ill afford to economize...
Langlois, Férol and Didier were privates in the same French regiment, but in different companies. They were not pals; until their fate brought them together they had never even spoken to each other. Langlois was an educated man, Didier was lower caste, Férol was the scum of the earth. Langlois rejoined the regiment, after a leave spent with his young wife, just as its battered remnants had come out of the front line for a well-earned rest. But their luck was out: because the high command wanted a hitherto impregnable sector of the German line...
Newshawks at the White House could not miss it: Franklin Roosevelt's mood had changed. His whole legislative program was in the pot and boiling. At last everything was coming to a head. The Social Securities Bill, the Banking Bill, the Utilities Bill, the Wagner Bill, the fate of NRA. And last week at that important juncture, suddenly the irritability which had marked his recent actions dropped from him. His "winter peeve" was over. Once more he was the President of two years past, taking the political initiative, breaking precedents with verve and satisfaction...
...which President Roosevelt was in good faith bound to veto. Priest Coughlin predicted: "It would be political suicide for the President to veto the Patman bill. He is too clever a politician for that. If he does veto it-." The priest shrugged a disclaimer for the President's fate in that event...
...policy of the H.A.A. with regard to the time of the league baseball games. It would seem that the H.A.A. has assumed from the size of the crowds which have attended the games in the past that there are no undergraduates who are at all interested in the fate of the Crimson team...