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Kirkland leisure has been well organized. Practically every night of the scholastic week there is some House function in progress. Chief among these is the Coffee Pot which is an undefined group meeting in the evening to hear some House member or some invited guest talk on any subject of general interest. There is no element of compulsion or of regularity in these meetings. Practically every field represented in the House has its enthusiasts incorporated in a group. There are the "Scientists", the "Englishmen", the "Economists", as well as, groups in the Classics and in History. Through all this runs...
...companies out. In 1907 Ivar Kreuger, then 27, arrived in Stockholm after several years spent in the U. S. as a construction engineer. (He built Syracuse University's Stadium.) He and Paul Toll formed Kreuger & Toll Co. to do engineering work, but in a few years the company's function had changed to a holding company for the expanding of Kreuger match interests...
...meeting any others. At present, the opportunity is wasted. It is perfectly true that simply as individual tutors those in Eliot are excellent; but so they were before the House was built. In the opinion of most of the other members of the House, apart from their strictly tutorial function, the value of most of the tutors to the house is almost...
...States to tack the "Lame Duck'' Amendment to the Constitution after the one providing for woman suffrage. Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey, Mississippi, Massachusetts, New York, South Carolina, Illinois, Rhode Island and Connecticut, all with legislatures sitting, jockeyed for second and third honors in performing a Federal function. Nebraska's Senator George William Norris, who has fought long and hard to reform Congressional dates fixed in the stage-coach era confidently expected to have the 36 necessary State ratifications soon after next January when the Legislatures of 44 States meet...
...only for the crisis of 1932's Depression, but for every future crisis. Block-Aid is expected to function. Director Lloyd-Smith means it to become the permanent instrument of neighborliness. As the wheels began turning last week his committee explained its aims thus: "This great plan, Block-Aid, is designed to end misery in this city in the next few months. Important though that purpose is, the Block-Aid plan has a far more important purpose. Every block will set up an organization of leaders, the Block-Aiders, who will be able to deal with destitution whenever...