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...Economics Department is making every effort to hold reading assignments within reasonable bounds, in general assigning not more than 50 percent more than is ordinarily given during the usual conduct of courses...
...reason for this rendezvous is pretty well known in European diplomatic circles. It is the intention of these nations to pour coals of fire upon their late and present enemies by being the outstanding espousers of world disarmament at the conference to come. Says M. Litvinoff: "Only 12.7 percent of the Russian budget goes for military enterprises, where-as the other powers, except Germany, spend between 20 percent and 35 percent of their income...
...increase of 20 percent in the amount contributed to the Harvard Fund, and of 45 percent in the number of subscribers to date in 1927, was announced yesterday by the Harvard Fund Council, which reported that $148,481 had been contributed by 4,767 men this year as compared with $123,702 from 3,269 men for the corresponding period...
...says the author, "the hundred percent Romans brawling drunkenly in their Forum ... lying on the cushions of their litters caressing with obscene fingers their boy-favorites--gloating sadistically, in their amphitheatres and circuses, over the butchery of unhappy gladiators and starved wild animals. They are fat heavy-jowled men with cruel eyes. To make the picture perfect all they need is big cigars.," So much for the men who built one of the largest empires in the world, certainly the empire whose institutions had the most lasting historical influences...
...rather encouraged them to harry the publishers to such good effect that soon the first impression was to be had only by the wealthy with good booklegging connections. The present adaptation seems desinged for the less affluent who must be satisfied with less than one half of one percent crotic content...