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America has the highest type of religion in the world today. America is also a very intolerant people. The highest type belongs only to about 1 percent. 50 percent are a bunch of slaves to creeds and fears and superstitions. The rest, the so-called "irreligious" are not so bad off however. I refrain from condemning them. A religious from condemning them. A religious bigot is worse than an American heathen...
...first speaker for the negative, W. D. Morton '27, emphasized that success in the field of concentration presages later success in life, and quoted to show that the chances were 300 percent greater for late success if men had high schol- astic attainments. "It is necessary to use learned methods to select those who will be our leaders," he concluded...
...toll taken by probation this year is extremely heavy, 25 percent of the candidates having dropped below the required scholastic standard. The coaches have urged these men to put every effort into passing the April hour examinations, so that they may participate in the spring season...
...developed of a new contact material, or catalyst, as it is called, which causes the nitrogen in the air to combine with other substances, especially hydrogen, with greater case and efficiency than has hitherto been the case. Where the catalysts used in other processes will produce 7 or 8 percent of ammonia, this new compound will yield 14 percent, and it has been run continuously for six months without deterioration...
...Sixty percent of the class must vote in order to make the election valid. If an insufficient number of votes are cast, further ballotings will be held at intervals of not more than ten days and the only eligible voters will be those who have not already voted. The ballotings will be held until a sufficient number of votes have been cast...