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...solution of the problem is still out of sight. France has returned from a Christmas recess to enter a renewed "Conference of the Premiers" with the firm proposal to occupy the Ruber and the Rhineland. France has grown thin on German promises. She wants something more substantial, and it will take all the diplomacy which England and America can bring to bear to make her wait much longer for definite action on the reparations settlement...
...have spent the summer helping in this work have found opportunities for cruising and exploration combined with the labor required. Few have gone, but as the proportions of the undertaking have grown, there has arisen a need for more men--especially those with medical or mechanical knowledge...
...addressed the meeting on "The Size and Complexity of the University". Mr. Allen said that very few of the graduates appreciate the largeness and intricacy of the University. He gave statistics and outlined the University's growth telling the delegates vividly how the cost of operating the University had grown from $46,000 in 1825 to $550,00 in 1885 and finally to $6,000,000 last year...
...great tradition has grown up in the University around its football captains. Four unbroken years of victory over Yale is a record to be proud of in itself, but Harvard has come to look for more in its football captains even than the successful headship of a winning team. They have been men of outstanding ability, leaders in the finest sense of the word, inspiring to their college generation on the gridiron...
Amazing symmetry of setting was the first impression of the second scene, for here Mr. Oenslager had incorporated the most modern of ideas with a simplicity that was extremely charming. Man,--now grown to man's estate and married--is undergoing the pangs of poverty, and the visit to his humble quarters by kinsfolk seems to establish more clearly his state of utter want. In the part that follows, J. J. Collier and Miss Secoy did a really splendid piece of acting. Andreyev has unfettered his wings of imagination and let them soar at will. The ecstasy, the pathos...