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According to authorities, the Common Room was already too big so that decreasing its size will accomplish a two fold purpose. The men from the Maintenance Department are hard at work since the job must be completed in September when the fall session starts, although the Common Room appears, at present, to be more in the process of destruction than construction...
...World War I, U.S. railroads used four times as many day coaches as Pullmans to haul troops, and at night a doughboy usually had to fold himself up to rest on a dusty, red-plush day-coach seat. Today's soldiers travel across the U.S. two in a lower berth, one in an upper.* The Army now gets 28 Pullmans for each coach. The War Department's Services of Supply gives other reasons than comfort for preferring Pullman travel: 1) when troops move at night by sleeper, nobody is the wiser; 2) civilian rail traffic is lighter...
Tonight's Jubilee with its "Battle of Music" and dancing until 3 o'clock, is a far cry from the staid and formal inter-dormitory singing contest that was the original Jubilee of 1915. The original "two-fold benefit" of education and stimulation has been at least partially corrupted...
Rapid mobilization of the nation's complete manpower is the only way to attain a quick victory. "Every year that victory eludes us multiplies by many fold the dangers to our civilization. Beyond some date, if war continues, lies defeat for this century's hopes for human freedom...
...dietetic or theological standpoint-until meteoric young Father Wade (he was then 30) arrived from Providence, R.I., 18 years ago. Within seven years he was made bishop, and since then he has had such success that he has brought 36,540 of the 57,928 islanders into his fold...