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...emphasis that Mr. Marvin lays on the Committee on Relations with the Alumni is interest decidedly well placed. Such a needed liaison between graduates and the University office would clear up a great deal of the misunderstanding that has arisen lately. The alumni are dissatisfied too often because they don't know exactly what is going on, and, still worse, have no way of finding out. The newspapers which have in the past been their only means of getting information tell a colored and exaggerated story...
...makes clear, however, that such frank criticism will be helpful only if it is cheerful, constructive, and based upon facts, and that it will be most useful if expressed directly to the University rather than to the public. Mr. Marvin explains how it was for just such a liaison that the committee of which he is chairman was formed...
...receive due consideration by the University. It is felt, however, that there is a much more broad and useful field in which the committee can be of real service to both the University and the alumni at large, and that is as the natural channel of communication and liaison between them. The members of the Committee, and the Secretary stand ready at all times to procure for any graduate such, information concerning the University as he may desire and as may be available, and to make such investigation as may be necessary to secure such information; and also to transmit...
...manipulation of the manikins is made to suggest at one point a parallel to the sub-rosa and subauricular romance of the wife and her sweetheart. Ultimately, the husband discovers the liaison, offers his breast to the dagger of the other man. But the affair is hushed up without unnecessary stabbing...
...Federal Government was present. The Government is interested in mechanical piatters. Only a few years ago, war turned the entire Government into a great mechanic. Now for both war and peace aims, the Government keeps in touch with mechanical progress. So its liaison officer, Assistant Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis, the man whose special function it is to foresee and mechanically to forearm for war, was on hand to open the session on National Defense. He set forth the two basic ideas of the War Department: 1) industrial preparedness as assurance against war; 2) the apportionment of its burdens...