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...immigration law, the effect of which would be to reduce Italian immigration into the United States from 42,000 to about 6,000 is causing much anxiety. With Italy's population multiplying and no outlet for it, it can be no long time before Mussolini must meet the problem...
Since the fig leaf went out of style, the problem of proper dress for state occasions has bothered each succeeding generation. When Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus was hastily summoned to the dictatorship of Rome in 458 B. C., he is reputed to have left his oxen hitched to the plow, but history does not say whether he changed to a fresh toga before proceeding to the Capitol. Twenty-two odd centuries later, Mrs. Jackson was intensely annoyed at some of the President's convivial adherents, who, coming in their native gard to congratulate him at his inauguration, stood in muddy boots...
...defects, already discovered are the operating expenses and the difficulty of finding enough men with the proper qualifications for tutors. The cost, great as it is, will somehow be met, once the system's full desirability is proved. The President's new scheme is an answer to the second problem. The English exchange will bring capable men from Cambridge and Oxford to help train an efficient personnel here; while the possibility of being chosen as one of the exchanges, as well as the increased prestige of the office of tutor, will encourage more good candidates...
Walker D. Hines, Director General of the Railroads during the last months of the period of Government operation, and now Eastern general counsel of the Great Northern, has joined Hale Holden, president of the C. B. & Q. in advocating railroad mergers as a cure for the railroad problem in the United States. Holden's plan, supported by Hines and other big railroad executives, contemplates a rail consolidation that would tie up every road west of the Mississippi Valley gateways into four great systems. As designated these would be the Burlington, Union Pacific, Santa Fe, and Southern Pacific systems, all reaching...
...advised" the action of the Liberal Club in taking a stand against any limitation of numbers on the basis of race or religion. I should simply like to suggest that one of the most important and indispensable "facts" that can possibly be said to bear upon the problem is the attitude of the students themselves toward racial groups within the College. And nothing more helpful can be done than that students who feel their responsibility should first meet for serious discussion of the situation and should then give open and candid expression to their convictions. WALTER R. GARDNER 3G. March...