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Irwin & Princes. In splendorous New Delhi met last week the Chamber of Princes. Nearly all of the Rajas and Maharajas maintain sumptuous residences in New Delhi which they inhabit only when the Chamber meets. Nearly all ride Rolls-Royces (the Maharaja of Patiala has 36 Rolls-Royces). Last week from the flagstaffs of these pampered potentates fluttered the crimson & gold of Bikaner, the blue, white & yellow of Bahawalpur, the scarlet of Patiala...
...requires an adjustment of the human spirit which it is difficult for men to maintain: a capacity to act resolutely while maintaining a skeptical mind...
...students can prevent the bank from doing anything to the building until July 1. Since this so obviously puts the bank at a loss of time and money, its lawyers strongly contested the case. However, Siegeltuch, who handled the arguments for the Legal Aid Bureau, was able to maintain successfully the side of the occupants of the dormitory...
There is no doubt that the University is in a difficult position, owning to the increased costs of the new housing system. With a heavier burden to maintain, one can understand its carefulness in charging rentals equal to the needs. But the fact remains, that students are the present losers, which means that the University, as it is now conceived, will suffer in the end. The Administration cannot afford to neglect this situation, or to allow financial barriers to block entrance to the Houses. To do so would be to defeat, from the start, the aim of the House Plan...
...Members of the British Commonwealth of Nations maintain that the figure of 81,989 tons is too high in relation to their destroyer figure of 150,000 tons pro- vided for under the London treaty...