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Nothing has been heard of the replies to that circular letter sent to students some time ago in an attempt to discover why more men were not eating at Memorial Dining Hall and Cafeteria. Perhaps the few men who still maintain interest in those eating places despaired of improvement and so did not trouble to reply. Or, perhaps the replies were unmentionable...
...Accordingly, His Imperial Majesty's Government consider it their duty to maintain and to place on record their solemn protest against the discriminatory clause in Section 13 (C) of the Immigration Act of 1924, and to request the American Government to take all possible and suitable measures for the removal of such discrimination...
Unfortunately, the republic seems too well established in France to give the Royalists even a fighting chance. If anything the administration will pass into the hands of the extreme Left. England needs a king to maintain its existing form of government, since much of the power of the Commons rests upon its use and control of the royal prerogative; but in France a king could be no more useful, although certainly more expensive, than a president. One would certainly advise M. Daudet and his Camelots to foregather at Oxford, traditionally the home of lost causes...
...university event the Quaker eight, captained by Medholdt, crossed the Henley distance mark three lengths ahead of Annapolis, which led Syracuse by a half length and the University by two lengths. The Crimson oarsmen kept abreast of their rivals up to the last quarter mile, but thereafter failed to maintain their position, although nosing out the Princeton boat...
...Treaty of Guarantees, signed in 1907, was to maintain and protect the status quo of both countries on the Asiatic continent, to guarantee the independence and territorial integrity of China...