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...Mather, professor of Geology, and tutor in the department of Geology, when queried about the quake last night, stated that he believed its point of origin to have been the Fundian Fault Zone, in the Gulf of Maine. At this point there is a very ancient fracture in the earth's crust, extending from the Bay of Fundy, Southwest, to the region of Cape Ann. That zone has caused so many earthquakes in the last three centuries that whenever one is felt near Boston, it is suspected as being the cause. The last tremor was felt about Boston on January...
Wilfred B. Shaw, former alumni secretary of the University of Michigan, in an article in the current Scribners finds that the college alumni of this country are wrongly criticized in showing interest only in football games. He lays the fault for this restriction of interest squarely upon the colleges themselves. In the past, athletics and endowment drives have been the only connections by which the colleges have attempted to keep in touch with their alumni. In the future, be predicts, the colleges will make a definite attempt to keep up academic relations with their graduates. giving them the opportunity...
Senate warriors last week stacked their arms and gave themselves over to quarreling as to who was to blame because the Tariff Battle did not move along more briskly. Republican Generalissimo Reed Smoot cried to his cohorts that it was "preposterous" to hold them at fault and that Freebooter Borah was "more than unfair" in so charging. Brigadier Borah thereupon crossed the lines to remark: "Senator Smoot is overworked and perhaps feels irritable. . . . No man in his calmer moments could have supposed that such a bill could have passed without a prolonged fight...
...experience of going to the library desk to take out books assigned for quizzes and hour exams, only to come away empty-handed due to the inadequate supply of copies, is unfortunately becoming a regular occurrence. The fault for this state of affairs does not lie so much on the administration of the library, as upon the instructors who are responsible for having the books used by their courses placed upon the shelves...
President Hoover vexed the convention of the American Dental Association at Washington last week by only greeting a few of them (see p. 13).* Also they were cross because they did not get the newspaper publicity which conventioneers expect. Partly that was not their fault. Prime Minister MacDonald's visit to Washington and two sensational stranglings filled Washington papers and clogged national press services. But the dentists themselves were also to blame. Enterprising organizations do not wait for reporters to attend their meetings. Good publicity committees send information, well prepared, to the newspapers. The dentists did not have...