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Assassination of individual Britons in Egypt is the one weapon left to individual Egyptians; but after the assassination of British Major General Sir Lee Oliver Fitzmaurice Stack (TIME, Dec. i, 1924) the British Empire demanded and received from Egypt an indemnity of ?500,000 (about $2,300,000), together with other humiliating capitulations...
...Alcock '29, G. I. Shapiro '28, and C. M. Churchill '30 to toss the hammer, C. A. Pratt '28, who has been doing well in practice the past week, and David Guarnaccia '28 to throw the javelin, and Pratt and Guarnaccia to heave the shot and discus. To stack up with these men the Hanoverians will place Phillips and Lyle in the hammer. Harden in the javelin, and McAvoy and Lyle in the shot and discus. The javelin, shot and discus may prove to be the most closely contested events of the meet, with the University holding a slight edge...
...Stack was assassinated. Promptly the British government seized the Egyptian customs, asked, and received, indemnity. So the matter rested, apparently quiet, until the recent outbreak. That the fight for independence continues is demonstrated in the periodic stifling that the British apply to Egyptian politics. A few weeks ago an Egyptian cabinet resigned, unable to obtain its ends against British opposition. Today the same problem confronts the present government. Each successive ministry wants but one thing--Egyptian freedom...
...fuels guilty of producing smoke, thereby increasing heating costs by waste of combustible material, increasing cleaning costs, injuring merchandise, injuring health by screening off the ultra violet rays of the sun, and corroding the lungs with sulphur fumes. He dubbed the domestic chimney more dangerous than the factory smoke stack. The inadequate supply of anthracite has been the argument for burning bituminous coal, but bituminous coal can now be perfectly converted into gas and coke which do not smoke. After 25 years research on this problem at the University of Illinois, Professor Parr propagandizes for their proper place...
...first Mezzanine floor will contain 36 professor's offices, six Seminar rooms, and several more stack rooms. On this floor in the new West Wing addition will be located the Librarian's Administration offices...