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...York fishing license. ¶ After approving a batch of 63 bills in the seclusion of his White House office, the President donned formal dress, climbed into his car, rolled down Pennsylvania Avenue, and entered the historic room at the Senate end of the Capitol. There lay another neat stack of 90 bills which were to be considered in the next hour before Congress adjourned. He showed visible displeasure at the practice which has grown up of having the Chief Executive at the Capitol to approve bills without pondering their wisdom. Nevertheless, he set to work with his flourishing big double...
...Boylston Hall, which goes back to 1857 and sports fancy round windows and a very bad French mansard. Enormous, out of all proportion to everything else, the mass of, the Widener Memorial Library thrusts itself into this space. Belonging to what may be called the modern "librarian" brand or stack house type of neo-classical architecture, this big structure presents a serious problem to the harmonizers...
...both ends, under the gable of the root, a recessed effect with columns on either side of the recess. With this is combined a round Lower, supported upon a pavilion of columns and set in the middle of one of the sides of the oblong rather like the stack of a power plant...
...Censuring the act of two Egyptian judges who overruled British Judge Kershaw last week forcing the acquittal of six out of seven natives (two Zaghlulists) charged with the murder of Sir Lee Stack, Governor General of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (TIME, Dec. 1, 1924). Judge Kershaw resigned last week. The British note ominously "declined to accept the verdict, reserved the right to take steps to insure the future safety of foreigners in Egypt...
...that the minutiae of no one or even several subjects should be allowed to obscure a complete and philosophical out took; that memory work should never consist of transient facts and should never outrun the capacity and training aimed at their utilization. The student should not be competled to stack his has in too overflowing forks-full...