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...under flying fingers, as Radcliffe goes yarn-minded. They are to be seen everywhere, these knitters, whisking their work out of roomy chintz bags, on the steps of Agasaiz, in the Writing room or Lunch room, even in the library with their eyes glued to a book as they knit, and possibly even as to whisper it in the back row at a ecture...
...there were a course of this type existent in each age, such as the Classical, Elizabethan, and Romantic eras, it would coordinate the work of the undergraduate. This would not knock out work in each division, of course; it would only knit closely together, the divergent knowledge which a man gains from such a study. These courses would be under the guidance of Department professors, for the platform circus which is of definite value to a Freshman, would not present the continuity essential for the advanced student...
...oppose this combination, which Fritz Crisler has knit into a superbly coordinated unit, Casey has a team that seemed to have great possibilities in its first three games but went into a most discouraging slump against Dartmouth last Saturday...
...quite fit in with the established bi-party system. In its brief career it has shown its willingness to be independent, which will perhaps appear to the routine-minded as a willingness to be inconsistent. Mr. George Haskins in a very able introductory editorial does make an effort to knit together the "Critic's" past and its present, even to the point of not altogether repudiating last year's famous questionnaire; but on the whole this number of the "Critic" strikes out for itself unfettered by tradition...
...finally reduced to apoplectic silence. Result: an amendment giving suspected foreign books the benefit of court trial. In the same year he led the fight which passed, over President Hoover's veto, the Cutting-Hawes Bill for Philippine Independence. In the 1930-31 session he labored mightily to knit the disorganized Progressives into a bloc. Never sympathetic to the Hoover administration, he became its increasingly vehement critic as the Depression deepened. Early in the Depression he introduced a bill for a $5,000,000,000 bond issue to pay for a public works program. Following its defeat he continued...