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...Beard also flayed Congress for "frittering away thousands of precious hours on petty and trifling bills"; for "turning executive officers loose" under too general laws; for barring Cabinet members from floor debates; for "comic opera" procedure...
Surely Harvard was justified by the result in declaiming all of its speeches, excepting only two or three minutes of rebuttal; but the transition from those precious seconds of direct clash and exchange of ideas to the meticulously phrased and memorized conclusion could not fall to jar the attentive listener. If such an inevitably mechanical performance must succeed to a notable Harvard and Oxford tradition in debating, we ought at least to go into the new order without any illusions as to what we are doing. We are sacrificing the ideal of the sport for the sport's sake...
...undergraduates by next autumn. Plans for the furnishings and decorations, which will be in the general character of the Farnsworth Room, are being drawn up by one of the leading firms of interior decorators. A vault is to be provided for the safe keeping of the most precious volumes...
...CRIMSON has missed the important points in the new plan at Penn. These have already been indicated here and elsewhere. What is so encouraging about the doings at Penn is that one college has finally thrown into action the words of the wise that had previously been words and precious little else...
Brother-in-law had foiled blackmailers. But at what cost. Reporter Thompson says he was told by Chief Travers: "Instead of ... an elaborate wedding with all the myriad, entrancing details that are so precious to every young girl in her dreams of the future, there had been a hurried, simple ceremony...