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This simple method of murdering a bill is called " filibuster." Any senator can speak on any subject at any time at any length; nothing can stop him but physical exhaustion. Friends and foes of the measure regard a filibuster as a sporting proposition. The object of the supporting side is to find a strategic error in the vocal armor of the filibusterers and obtain the floor to bring the measure to a vote. That happened several years ago to Senator LaFollette, who, after talking 18 hours, lost the floor and saw the bill passed in five minutes...
...first meeting of the Freshman dormitory choruses will be held this evening at 7 o'clock in the Common Rooms of the respective halls. The object of the choruses will be briefly explained by A. W. Wright 4M., who is in charge of the singing at the Freshman Jubilee. Following this a short rehearsal will take place in each of the three halls...
Dispite Kipling's famous ballad, Easterners and Westerners have many likes and dislikes in common, but the object of their most violent hatred is the man who tells them the unsavory truth about themselves. In a play now appearing in Boston, the hero, a New York minister who says what he thinks; is ejected from office for his attitude towards his rich parishioners. Needless to say the latters' guilty consciences are responsible for the deed, but the chances are, even if his enemies were as innocent as they pretend to be, that he would have been expelled in any case...
...Senators display more originality. Heflin, always genial and diverting, has chosen to lecture on "Egyptology". This subject, while peculiarly apropos in the Senate, is perhaps not quite as entertaining as some other things he might have chosen, such as the "Parody Outline of History", or as appropriate to the object of the filibuster as "Liverpool Jarge" would...
...daily program will consist, as in former years, of discussion groups and platform meetings, and among the lecturers are Dean W. L. Sperry of the Theological School, and the Reverend H. E. Fosdick, D.D., professor of Practical. Theology at Union Theological Seminary, N. Y. The object of the conference is to discuss social, religious, and economic problems of the day, a series of lectures being given by men who are leaders in these fields...