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...lacking that it has affected the Presidential aspirations of any candidate. Last week brought two dramatic struggles, one in North Dakota, one in Georgia. Politicians may have overestimated the effect of oil, or its promiscuity may have ruined its effectiveness, or it may be lying in wait to spring forth decisively later. At any rate last week's primaries were Presidential primaries, not oil primaries...
...three volumes that have been the most popular with the public are "Harvard Memories" by President. Eliot, which discloses the spirit of the Harvard of a generation ago; "Bits of Harvard History" by Samuel Francis Batch-elder '93, which brings forth a fascinating store of history and legend about Harvard from the days when the College was little more than a boarding school; and "The Achievement of Greece" by William Chase Greene '11, in which politics, economics, science, aesthetics, philosophy, and religion are woven into a coherent story which gives complete familiarity with every aspect of Greek life...
...Germany comes as a decided surprise. It is at once an evidence if a renewed sanity in political outlook and an indication of the seriousness of the food problem in Germany. As an expression of a forgiving spirit and a desire to alleviate unnecessary; suffering the bill should call forth only favorable comment, which even the suspicion that the measure was in part designed for the very practical purpose of pleasing the American farmer and "consolidating the German vote" does not embitter. The overwhelming pon-party vote in its favor expresses the Business of Congressional sympathy...
...pleasing and undesirably flattering fact that every little while some patriotic person bursts forth into impassioned prose on the subject of the connubial records of Harvard men. Recently someone proved that Harvard graduates add only 1.2--or therebouts--children per man to the population of the United States, and only the other day, a cynical gentleman, writing in the New York Times, pointed out in an irreverent article that if "all Americans go to Harvard, this nation will certainly die out." Fortunately this has become impossible, since the Freshman enrolment has been limited...
...Outdoor practice tomorrow," was the optimistic slogan at the baseball cage yesterday afternoon, and after the usual batting session in the cage Coach Slattery sent his charges outside for a few minutes to pass the ball back and forth and limber up generally. If fair weather continues, the entire workout will be outdoors this afternoon...