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...Thus did party warfare return to the Capitol. For almost three months Speaker Garner has ruled the House with care and quiet, to a legislative record for his party. With only the narrowest margin of Democratic control, he has, by his own personal force, kept his party united and moving constructively down the middle of the legislative road. The Republican minority has had an affectionate respect for him as shown by its participation in the uproarious Garner demonstration by the whole House after Bicentennial exercises. The Garner leadership is called the "wonder of the day" at the Capitol. As evidence...
...Neutrons move much faster than alpha particles, and they have great penetrating powers. They can travel through a mile of air, several feet of lead. They apparently weigh 200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 to the ounce. It is only by the finest of discernment that they can be distinguished from unentangled quanta of energy. Streams of them may be what Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan calls cosmic rays. But Dr. Chadwick doubts that. Neutrons may be, because they have opposite poles, the long sought units of magnetism. Whatever they are, neutrons are fine things for physicists to play...
...violently dislike to up-cudgel over old issues, but the occasion makes move vivid our recognition of the utter absurdity of dormitory regulations. Here is an affair intended primarily as an outlet for the social pursuits of freshmen and non-Hellenics, and yet an aged and Puritanical doctrine prevents them from enjoying it to the fullest extent...
Changes in Government 1 for next year, including elimination of all but one lecture per week and increase from one to two section meetings weekly, were announced yesterday by A. N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government. This constitutes a move in the direction of having all section men tutors, thus improving the quality of the instruction...
Commenting on the new system, Professor Holcombe said, "We think this is a move in the right direction and that it will increase the efficiency of our instruction". He stated further that, while the chief argument for lectures was usually economy, it was held that there remained a legitimate field for lectures and that there was no intention of abandoning all lectures in the course. The remaining lecture will be devoted to the application of general principles of government to problems...