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...intend that the moral slur cast in the direction of Fascismo by the Aventine deputies shall be discussed immediately. Since our present session has been dedicated to a memorial service to Queen Margherita, I move that a special sitting to discuss the Aventine situation be convoked tomorrow...
...That is, the moon cast its solar shadow full upon the earth- a total eclipse. It happened that the shadow-an oval patch 80 miles in longitude, about 180 in latitude, traveling side wise from west to east just north of the equator at some 60 miles a minute-moved across a 7,-000-mile belt of the earth sparsely inhabited by human organisms, and then only by human organisms that have not been out of the primeval ooze long enough to lose their religious adoration of the sun's life-giving light. In darkest Africa, where the shadow...
...York City, January 24--The Carnegle Foundation of Teaching has undertaken this year a thorough going investigation of the place that football at present occupies in the intercollegiate world. This move follows the general interest in the question aroused after the close of the football season last fall...
...decision of the Yale Faculty is described as "one of the most progressive steps toward academic freedom since the adoption of the elective system at the New Haven Institution. As in the action of the University authorities the move is in way of reposing more reliance in the attitude of the individual toward his scholastic duties. The new system is expected to place less emphasis on the classroom and supervised instruction and more on the work of original research and independent study...
Last week the U. S. automotive industry, now worth three billion dollars, held its show again (TIME, Jan. 11). Stuffing bales of order-slips into its pockets, it shook hands with itself and prepared to move its shining, multi-colored wares from Manhattan to Chicago for the other big display that has become an annual custom...