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...Indians of the Fort Berthold Agency, North Dakota, are passionately addicted to keeping dogs as pets. This is a problem that has for years distressed the Indian Bureau of the Department of the Interior. Grave cases have been reported to the Bureau of individuals who possess half a dozen dogs and hold on to them with a tenacity that no amount of moral, suasion can shake. Now it is announced that the braves of Fort Berthold Agency have decided to get along with two dogs per Indian, and to put, as well, a dollar tax on every dog within...
...olive branch to Britain. In a note to the British Government Poincare asks for cooperation in demanding that Germany end passive resistance in the Ruhr. Official circles have it that Britain will accept this proposal. Thus the beginning of a solution of the Ruhr occupation and the greater problem of reparations is definitely in sight...
While Frenchmen declare that they will hold on until Germany comes to her senses and Germany refuses to oblige, the English government, in daily Cabinet meetings, is wrestling with the problem which has disturbed Europe since the war Franco-German relations involving particularly the questions of security and reparations. During 1921 and 1922 England suffered a severe trade depression brought on largely by the burden of taxation. With the coming of 1923 and the revival of hope for prosperity, the European market was further disturbed by the French invasion of the Ruhr. Economically England needs European recovery...
This dual function of the Union indicates its greatest problem. Major Higginson hoped that his gift might serve as a club to which all Harvard students should belong, but his idea has remained largely a pious hope. The Union has approximately 1500 members, of whom, about eleven percent are members of no other college club. It is for these men--in so far at least as they are not Freshmen--that the Union exists as a club and it is by these men that the Union is used--and used incidentally to a greater extent than the Harvard Club...
...vital problem remains; that of the deficit which has been annually incurred and annually paid by the University. Next year an attempt will be made to put the management of the Union on a more scientific basis, while the membership will probably be increased by the new method of counting men as members until they resign. With a clear recognition of its dual purpose and with a prospect for better financial condition, the Union may look forward to a successful future...