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...dish is his method of eating it. He takes fork with l., (l means left hand; r., right.) Changes same to r., tries to eat griddlecake with same, returns fork to l., whence to table and exhales. Picks up fork with l, and knife (by handle) with r., gets firm hold on both and approaches griddle cake. Griddle-cake slipping well on the mixture of caviar and heavy alights in neighbor's lap. (Now here is where his training is evident.) With a jovial laugh, Willie bursts...
Unforeseen contingencies are continually arising at present, in which the American public expects firm action on the part of its government; witness the recent Turkish crisis. However, the government is in no position to make any demands if it has neither men nor ships to give them weight. It cannot even go very far in the protection of American lives and property...
Where are we coming to? Divisionals are here to stay; the tutorial system has a firm foothold in some departments, is stepping into others, and will eventually become an integral part of the college's educational machinery. Marks must go; Phi Beta Kappa, according to its present standards, cannot last; entrance requirements must be altered so as to take into greater consideration the character of applicants. All things are tending towards a more honest and less ostentatious form of education. The ability to acquire--and use-- knowledge...
...absolutely essential for the college man who goes into industry, to have an open mind on the problems of industry today," declared Mr. Daniel Bloomfield '12, associate editor of "Industrial Relations," when interviewed recently by a CRIMSON reporter. Mr. Bloomfield is a partner in the Boston firm of Bloomfield and Bloomfield. consultants on industrial relations...
...library of the University of Louvain, I am glad to join in the congratulations of numberless friends of the University in all lands. The burning of this ancient and distinguished library was, like the burning of the library of Alexandria, an irreparable loss to scholarship; but it is my firm belief that in so far as the monuments of learning and the literary and artistic treasures can be replaced, they will be replaced through the generosity of those friends of scholarship who suffer with you in your loss, and who today rejoice with you in this first step toward restoration...