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...Meeting. In Washington at the call of Chairman Fess assembled the Republican National Committee to select next year's convention city. A likely choice: Chicago, with a $125,000 cash...
Sargon's Bull. No great number of Chicagoans, even of the select 300 who attended the Oriental Institute's opening, could begin to comprehend the myriad minute implications of the million-&-one mummies, skeletons, sculptures, potteries, cuneiform tablets and other miscellaneous objects with which the new building was nearly packed. Yet even an early Swift or Cudahy would have understood and taken solid satisfaction from Dr. Breasted's prize exhibit - a monster, 40-ton stone bull, set up in the main (Egyptian) hall facing the big bronze gates. No U. S. bull was ever like this...
...Where is the Constitution, and who are the select few that wrote it? Perhaps it is not, as was granted above, such a fine document. At least it would be interesting to know something about it. The machine in urban polities is possible because the voters are ignorant and needy, and because those who should vote, are indifferent and don't. In this case the ignorance of the members of the Class, is not their fault. They have never had a chance to see the Constitution. The indifference is their fault, and this may be also properly considered an appeal...
...members of the Class of 1932; the eight juniors are as follows: Sidney Cohen '33, H. C. Hatfield '33, W. A. Huppuch '33, Richard Inglis, Jr. '33, K. W. McMahan '33, Peter Shuebrook '33, A. E. Taylor '33, and B. A. Winter '33. Next year this group will select the members from the Classes...
...hardly necessary to set forth in detail here all the reasons why students should select this voluntary course. Many of them are axiomatic and self-evident. Whatever else the purposes of a college education may be, one of them is to develop the reasoning powers of the student. To learn how to think, and to think accurately and rapidly, is one of the hardest tasks in the world, so says a writer on debating, while to expound the conclusions of one's thinking to an untrained audience so clearly that the audience understands the speaker's point of view...