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...membership of the Aeronautical Society has grown until now it is the largest of any aero club in America. In the winter the society was incorporated, and has at present the honor of being the only college organization affiliated with the Aero Club of America. Its outlook for next fall appears very bright...
...last few years there has grown up in the community a very sensible and wholesome liberality in regard to the observance of Sunday. Recreation and religion are no longer thought incompatible; each is reaching its appropriate place in the popular estimation. At present those few students who are fortunately situated take their Sunday recreation at the shore or in the country; others spend the day in study or in less profitable pursuits in Cambridge. To the majority of the undergraduates, then, the use of the tennis counts on Sunday would be a welcome privilege...
...scene of "The Witch" is laid in Salem in the year 1692. Joan, a young Portuguese woman comes to Salem and marries Absalom Hawthorn, an avowed witch-hater. She soon finds that she really loves, not Absalom, but his grown-up son, Gabriel. Joan knowing that her own mother possessed supernatural power decides to see if she has inherited it, and wills Absalom dead. He dies immediately, falling at her feet. His old mother Goodwife Abigail, suspects witchery and demands that Joan take the "test of touching." In this test she breaks down and admits that she is a witch...
...least of the troubles which the Junior dance committee will meet is that of over-crowding in the Union. Since the dance was transferred to the Union several years ago it has grown so in popularity that the Living Room is no longer sufficient to accommodate comfortably all who wish to attend. Except for this lack of room for dancing, the Union is in every way suitable, and is the appropriate place to have the dance...
...Then came the blight upon the potato and millions found themselves face to face with starvation, and families died along the roadside by thousands. The famine was followed by the plague, and then came almost the worst calamity of the three. The landlord himself was almost starving and had grown poor, consequently he raised the rent and evicted those who could not pay. Hundreds of thousands of people were turned from their farms...