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The advent of an educational experiment has removed an unsound, unhealthy arrangement. Freedom from tutorial conferences has forced the student to enter the mid-year exams as an uncoached amateur, but it has permitted the tutor, who would ordinarily be, if not stormed, at least beset by pleas for assistance...
"Petlura was responsible. Even Ukrainian officers said so. His soldiers killed our people, shouting his name. One regiment had a band and it played while knives fell on the heads of innocent babies. Petlura could have stopped it, but he wouldn't listen to our pleas."
Competition of a highly developed sort has been introduced into the business of endowment fund campaigns. The old order changeth and the prosaic pleas, "give for alma mater", and "for the interests of higher education", bow before the potency of an appeal to the sporting instinct. Stipulations and conditions involving...
Last week many Sacco-Vanzetti pleas were pouring in from highly reputable sources. Among the voices added to the Sacco-Vanzetti cause were those of:
Night foremen can become lifesavers only at their own risk, ruled last week Judge Nelson Mc-Vicar of the Pittsburgh Common Pleas Court. His decision saved the Fidelity & Casualty Co. $2,400, lost Mrs. Elsie A. Prettyman (widow of William A. Prettyman) the same amount.