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...last week could read the Los Angeles' future. From dead storage she could be recommissioned in 30 days. Her crew will doubtless be assigned to the U. S. S. Macon, the metal framework of which was completed last week in the Goodyear-Zeppelin dock at Akron, Ohio while a delegation from Macon, Ga. waved flags. The Navy has been approached by prospective purchasers of the Los Angeles (prominently mentioned: Chicago World's Fair) but manifests no desire to consign the ship to unpracticed hands...
...days later Lieut.-Colonel von Papen, sleekly groomed for the occasion, made his first formal address as Chancellor to the equally sleek Agricultural Council, central body of German Junkers (landed aristocrats). Mindful of the warning from South Germany, he pledged his Cabinet to "adhere to the framework of the [Republican] Constitution," but he raised loudest hochs by exclaiming: "The unprecedented spiritual and material situation of the German people requires liberation from the chains of party politics and unification of all forces for the rebirth of Germany...
...spike is an almost solid tapering pole weighting eight and one half tons. It is used principally to strengthen and make the spire secure. In three sections the pole was lifted through the framework, screwed together and temporarily clamped. The appearance of a slight lean is due to the fact that it has not yet been secured in the ceiling of the rectangular room housing the old bell, now ringing from Harvard Hall. Bolts, cables, and cement will be used to fasten the pole within the framework beginning today. Contrary to current suppositions, it is not a lightning arrestor, although...
Exploitation of student interests, non-representative officers and inefficient management are sending the old political faction form of government to the wall. College students are setting up the framework of government systems which are adequate and capable of satisfying the many needs of the present day student. In the larger colleges and universities, the student senate and council systems are being inaugurated to replace the old free-for-all but open-to-none class officer system...
...superficial. There are, Dr. Erskine points out, "a few ideas, a few problems which belong to all time." And it is with these problems that the universities should be most deeply concerned. Their task is to sift the vital knowledge of the ages from the dust of its dead framework...