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...political ideas. One criticism of this new feature of the Liberal Club's policy appears. Unfortunately in publishing these interviews, no conclusions are to be drawn; the reader is to be left to draw his own inferences from the facts. Though this may be partly necessary to maintain an impartial attitude, it does not seem inevitable. Both candidate, club member, and undergraduate would be better for a frank evaluation by an organization with no votes and no political fences to tend. Nevertheless, the important thing is that the Liberal Club has brought forth a new feature which promises greatly...
...nature of that ground went back directly to M. Barthou's general diplomatic background. It was he as French War Minister in 1921 who wrote the military clauses of the Franco-Polish Alliance. This alone enabled the re-created Polish State to maintain itself against Soviet Russia and against Germany's desire to recover the Polish Corridor. In the whole post-War period up to last winter Poland was regarded as the fortunate and presumably grateful protege of France...
...takes 100 tin cans a year to maintain the average U. S. family-about 60 for food and about 40 more for oil, shoe polish, paint, etc., off & on throughout the year. Since cans, once opened, are of little further use, that means the U. S. consumes 12,000,000,000 cans annually. Tin cans, as all the world knows, are not made from tin but from tin plate which is 98½% steel with 1½% coating of tin. Last year the can makers used more steel than any other industry except the automobile, absorbing one-eighth...
...probationary wayside. There it is that the first dawn of Harvard begins to glow in the minds of the harassed Freshman. There he may see for the first time the early kindness of the first few days give way before the grim reality of hard labor necessary to maintain the required standards of a Harvard education...
Ship News. The full title is New York Ship News Reporters Association. The organization's only function is to maintain headquarters in a long, squat building at the Battery, the noisy tip of Manhattan Island. The building, hard by the Customs House, is called the Barge Office. There a Western Union printer reports on every floating object that passes Quarantine, eight miles down New York Harbor from the Battery...