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...many compound parts. The reason for this move, and the objection to Mr. Wister's proposal lies in the significance of the Board and the part it plays in all phases of Harvard life. As the dominating group influence in the government of the University its roll should include men geographically representative; this can be done, and the recent tendency toward that end should suffer no intervention. There is in this theory and in the notations of Mr. Batchelder's letter no need of sacrificing either the merit or the competency of the Board...
...Oliver Lodge. Respectful, they used no crowbar or ax. Resourceful, they peeked last week into the box with the aid of an Xray. Amused, they saw only the outlines of a horse pistol, dice box, skull, scissors, bead bag, pins, coins, rings, and what is believed to be the roll of a manuscript...
Such was the prayer offered last week by Mrs. Chaplain General Matthew Brewster of New Orleans, for deceased national officers, state regents and the 2,067 death roll of the Daughters of the American Revolution, who last week held their 36th "Continental .Congress," at Washington...
...when the National Labor-Party was founded, James Ramsay Macdonald has repeatedly been elected its treasurer. But, last week, at a party conference in Leicester, opponents of Mr. Macdonald, defiant as mice when the cat is away, stampeded through a vote 312 to 118 striking his name from the roll of nominees for treasurer. The stroke was significant, revealed sharply that divergence between Labor radicals and Labor conservatives which Mr. Macdonald has many times prevented from becoming a party split by the force of his political generalship...
Illuminating as these figures may be to some people, it is impossible that they will cause any stir in the world of levity, except as new grist for the laugh mill. Even the awe-inspiring news that tuberculosis takes a large roll of gentlemen graduated from college funny papers will not act as a sedative. Caps will continue to hob and bills to iiugle in the face of overwhelming numbers. After all, is the conforming reflection, these statistics prove exactly what most statistics prove...