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...greatly different, this sum must apply as well to the cost of lectures in the college. Even to that rare individual who has calculated the price of each lecture on the basis of tuition fees as fifty cents, four dollars and five cents must come as a shock. An added hour of sleep is certainly worth fifty cents, but at eight times that amount its desirability becomes questionable. And it would seem that once the pecuniary value of lectures and section meetings has become fairly fixed in the undergraduate mind the entire machinery of "cut pro" might be discarded...
Gulian falls in love with Vida Prendergast, who is unhappily married to Sydney Prendergast, son, of Father Eyre's partner. But just as that affair shows signs of becoming dangerous, Gulian learns that his father's health is in a grave condition-"any sudden shock would kill him." Vida will not divorce her husband and partly on account of his father's condition, Gulian will not consider any other arrangement. So the affair ends...
...Auckland, the retiring British Ambassador to the U. S., advised the panic-mongers to calm themselves. "This," said he, "is not the time for panic mongering or wild talk. Undoubtedly the advent of a new party?a most inexperienced party?of which certain extremists make proposals which shock us, has caused uneasiness, but there has been no panic, nor anything that can be described as such. The sky is not black with pound notes winging their way across the Atlantic, but doubtless much investment is being done abroad. However, world trade and British prosperity are balanced on a knife edge...
...severe earthquake occurred at 5 :50 a. m. Jan. 15, on Honshu, main island of the Japanese Empire, in approximately the same area as the Great Earthquake of last September (TIME, Sept. 10 et seq.). The amplitude of the shock, as registered by the seismograph at the Osaka Observatory, was two inches of lateral movement, or half that recorded for the Great Earthquake...
...comes as somewhat of a shock that even they must chase the almighty dollar in their exhibition of handiwork which opened in New York yesterday, but most people are of the opinion that such a course is preferable to entering the movies--and of course one enterprising cinema promoter has already made such an offer. It is a mistake to believe the motion picture cannot be associated with anything artistic or sacred, but the Passion Play of Oberammergau in the movies? Well...