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Died. William Childs, 72, co-founder (with his late brother, Samuel) of Childs Restaurants; of a heart attack; in Bernardsville, N. J. A strict vegetarian, he was ousted from the management of his restaurants in 1929 by carnivorous majority stockholders, returned to his first and favorite occupation, farming...
...student, it would be a mistake for the Council to attempt to discipline his private affairs. Harvard is too much a place for individualized learning to favor such practical training in citizenship as the ideal student council is supposed to afford. For students in those colleges which impose strict regulations upon undergraduate life, it is right that they have a loud voice in forming and administering their own codes. But this, we hope, will never be necessary at Harvard, and therefore the Council's function should be to keep one eye on University Hall and the other on the student...
...Dakota's Nye, proposing to end the embargo on arms shipments to the Spanish Government. Last week, after conferring with Franklin Roosevelt, Mr. Hull sent the Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Key Pittman his reply. This was a terse note to the effect that having adopted a policy of "strict noninterference" the U. S. could not now consistently alter it; and that "even if the legislation applied to both parties, its enactment would still subject us to unnecessary risks we have so far avoided." Furthermore, wrote Secretary Hull, if Congress wanted to revise the Neutrality Act, it should...
...bought a few cats, but they preferred fishing too. Thereupon Coates opened the electric eel tank, turned the fish loose on the floor to play with the cats. The latter promptly pawed the eels, were thoroughly shocked. The Aquarium cats, now firmly convinced that all fish are electrified, pay strict attention to the rats...
Jones proposed limited enrollment with strict entrance requirements. He also suggested stricter reading examinations in German and French...