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...Ilya Tolstoy who is speaking at the Union tonight. He has written many articles for American periodicals and in them he pictures the woes that Russia has had to put up with, conditions which he has observed first hand, since war and Sovietism have been visited upon her. Most normal people agree that the present state of affairs is impossible; and here they stop. Count Tolstoy, with perhaps some vision of his father, a true lover of democracy, can look upon the present horrors and still find cause for optimism. He feels that Russia will rise triumphant out of chaos...
...snowball situation is not a matter for deep concern. It is a normal, healthy method of presenting a fellow creature with a black eye and an exercise without which no childhood is complete. But in childhood snowballs did not cost ten cents apiece. One evening last winter cost a class now in the University something like a thousand dollars for broken windows. Assume that five hundred men went into action, each throwing twenty snowballs. The rate per snowball comes to ten cents...
...regard to the first of these principles Dr. Cabot emphasized the importance of friendship. He drew an analogy between people we dislike and people we don't know, asserting that too many of our prejudices against those about us are due to ignorance of their character. "It is normal to like people", he said, "and if we conceive an instinctive prejudice against every stranger it is a sure sigh of an abnormal or diseased mentality...
...years have been a time of evolution in the functions as well as of increase in the size of the Bursar's Office. At the beginning the Bursar was responsible for supervision or for the actual execution of most of the activities in Cambridge departments which were outside the normal functions of the teachers. The library, some of the laboratories, the museums, the Botanic Garden and the Observatory were under the charge of the appropriate officers, but with these exceptions the Bursar's authority directly or otherwise covered mechanics, engineers and firemen, laborers and janitors. The Bursar assigned the seats...
...United States into the war and the consequent organization of the S. A. T. C. with its transformation of the University into a military camp, there was no organized first team football during 1917 and 1918, but in the fall of the following year, with the return of somewhat normal conditions, Coach Fisher was again called in, this time to assume supreme command of the Stadium forces...