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...people up there have written us indignantly that the bells do ring. It comes out that every Monday evening at six-thirty Lowell House holds High Table, which is a secret--and we should imagine, sad--sort of dinner, attended only by House members and invited dignitaries. After this function, the High Tablers, led by Head Tutor Mason Hammond, wind in a solemn procession up into the tower to see and hear the bells...
With $2,000,000,000 in hand, R. F. C. will be ready to function as a colossal credit agency. Loan applications are limited to one year but the President may extend this to two. Loans will run for three years, renewable for two more. After five years the four non-Government directors will be dropped from the Board and five years later! R. F. C. must be liquidated. Authorized borrowers: "Any bank, savings bank, trust company, building & loan association, insurance company, intermediate credit bank, livestock credit corporation, agricultural or farmers' association or other bona-fide financial institution...
...game started inauspiciously with several fouls for both sides, interspersed by occasional baskets. Harvard, playing a good defensive game, managed to gain a 9 to 8 lead, which it held for several minutes. Then suddenly the Friar attack began to function, and within a few minutes the Rhode Islanders had rolled up their score to 20, while the Crimson failed to get the ball near the basket. Matursevitch dropped a basket a few seconds before the intermission, making the score 20 to 11 at half-time...
Like a fertile polyp, another of Russia's vast, unwieldy government bureaus subdivided itself last week, continued to function. In obedience to Dictator Stalin's injunction for decentralization, the Supreme Economic Council was subdivided into three new commissariats: Heavy Industry, Light Industry, Lumber...
Under such unfavorable circumstances, the prospective tutor might easily degenerate into an assistant in cramming, and usurp the function of the two or three "grinds" which fraternities annually chose for strictly pragmatic purposes. Such an outcome would be a travesty on the genuine tutorial system...