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...article printed below is the fifth of a series written at the request of the Crimson and designed as a guide to undergraduates in selecting fields of concentration. These articles will cover all of the main divisions under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...valuable a memorial the Record can be, with its excerpts from the poets, its passages from textbooks, and its general information. Recently a Missouri Congressman, vitally interested in dogs, wished the department of agriculture to issue a bulletin on them. To prove the desirability of his request, by unanimous consent he "extended" his remarks in the Record, and filled four pages with an all-comprehensive dissertation on canines from Noah's time to this. It begins with the Darwinian theory, includes mention of the drawings on the tombs of the Egyptian Kings, and contains almost every dog enlogy except Goldsmith...
...annual reading for Freshmen in the Dining Room of the Union at 9 o'clock on Thursday evening, March 15. It has been the custom in the past to hold this reading in the fall of the year, but this year it was postponed at Professor Copeland's request...
...plans for drying up the Mexican border have found their way to Washington. One is a request by the Federated Clubwomen of the Imperial Valley, Cal., that Secretary Hughes " close" the border at sundown to persons under 21 years of age, in order to protect their children. The other is a rumor from Mexico City, to the effect that the government is considering establishment of a dry belt 50 miles wide, along the border. So far it is only a rumor...
...asked whether the Government had any proof that Pharoah's body was really in the tomb. "No, Sir," replied Mr. MacNeill, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, "the Government is not aware that the body of his late Majesty is in the tomb!" Another wag solemnly inquired whether any request had come from Egyptians to dig among the tombs of British Kings and Queens in Westminster Abbey, and what reply would be made to it? A disgusted Under-Secretary merely glared...