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...Hampshire in the Presiding Officer's chair. Vice President Dawes had left at 10 p. m. and Mr. Moses had done the heavy night work. Early in the morning Mr. Dawes returned. . . . At last, a quorum was present. But the filibusterers* kept the floor, allowed no one to move a vote on the Boulder Dam bill. Senator Hiram Johnson of California, co-author of the bill, had sat up all night trying to get a vote. The filibusterers were glad to have other Senators relieve them during the day with debate on Muscle Shoals, alien property and Prohibition bills...
Playing Barbee at center is a repetition of an experiment tried in the Columbia game. Coach Wachter believes that this move, although weakening a defense upon which he has been working, will make a stronger opposition to Springfield than the usual lineup...
...place for both." That is almost a truism but it immediately raises the question what places, what positions of relative importance shall they occupy. Already this spring the Second Team intercollegiate baseball schedule has been discarded with the exception of a game with Yale for intramural competition. Such a move would seem to indicate that all second teams, essentially intercollegiate in their organization, would be abolished in favor of class teams. It might logically be extended to all Freshman teams. It might even be developed to a less extend in University intercollegiate teams. The early weeks of practice in almost...
Strange, affecting stories are told of their inseparability, their confidence, understanding of each other. Every move seems the result of joint thought and decision. It is thought that O. P. usually takes the lead, but if O. P. may speak for M. J. so may M. J. speak for O. P. With two minds made up, they are difficult to swerve. It is gossiped that even their personal checkbook is a joint affair, either signature being valid...
They say Europe is effete. They say nothing can move sophisticated Europe. . . . Last week in the Salle Gaveau (Paris concert hall) a fair-haired little boy in a blue sailor suit put his violin under his chin and played Mozart. When he had finished he smiled simply at the big audience-smiled, and soon went on playing. He did not seem to notice that women were weeping, that men were looking at their waistcoat buttons. .After his last number, he could not help noticing that hats were flying up in the air, that the room was ringing with deafening cheers...