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...spoke for a bill to extend hospital benefits to disabled World War veterans suffering from chronic diseases without positive proof that such diseases were acquired in the service. Her bill came up on the "consent calendar." (This calendar is composed of measures which it is thought may not arouse opposition. The bills are read by title by the Clerk. The Speaker asks whether there is objection to "present consideration." If there is one objection the bill goes over. If not, the bill is rattled off by one of the reading clerks and is passed without further...
...down to meet the winning Yale class crew. Junior A won the class championship Thursday by 4 feet over the Senior boat. Although the victory of the Juniors was not contested, the race was so close that another one was decided on in order that a more conclusive proof of superiority might be obtained...
Athletes who are strong and mature are best fitted to become consistent distance runners. We have an exception to prove the rule in the case of Tell Berna, which provides conclusive proof that speed can be obtained by an athlete with little more than persistency. Berna was an Ithaca High School boy. He first reported for track in his senior year. He was one of the also rans on his school team. It was not until his senior year that he developed anything like a decent stride. Then he ran the fastest two miles ever credited to an American collegian...
...course the American public is very glad that Commander Byrd is both American and a Nordic. For there is in those facts further proof that in Americanism and Nordicism lie germs of greatness which never take on alien soil. But there is sufficient reason why at this time true pride should be expressed that in an age so mechanical as to be morose, so intricate as to lose its intrigue one human has enough of the joie de vivre to wish to risk...
...admit that any status quo is altogether satisfactory is to admit inertia. So the efforts of the Associated Clubs to assist the college in picking men from the particular community most suited to Harvard tradition and Harvard life cannot be other than commendable. Yet these suggestions are certainly not proof, the metropolitan press to the contrary notwithstanding, that the Reports just published in any way concern sensational adverse criticism of the present Harvard system...