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...from a tour of the infested district, assured his fellow citizens the plague was under control. Robert Hart, chief quarantine officer of Manila, declared that city was quite safe. But it was learned the disease had spread from Bantayan to the neighboring islands of Cebu and Masbate despite a strict government quarantine which has stopped practically all commerce within the affected region. Especially miserable and hungry were the inhabitants of a segregated leper islet off Bantayan...
...German finance ministry for their chronic habit of loose, slipshod, extravagant budgeting. Last year for a short period, according to Mr. Gilbert, the German government was pledged to spend not only more than they had but more than they could borrow. Only if such methods are replaced by strict, scientific budgeting, he prophesied, will Germany be able to meet all her obligations...
Some colleges, of which Harvard is probably the leading one, do not require their opponents to have the same eligibility rules but only ask strict adherence to any rules that their rival may have. With these colleges Army can keep on playing under its present eligibility system but with the others, among whom all the Big Ten universities are now notable additions, Army can not hope to remain on friendly terms...
...Gretna. La., Cadet Cagle, aged 23, had married Marion Munford Haile. He returned to West Point to sign certificates that he had not violated the Academy's strict rule against cadets marrying. Mrs. Cagle taught school in Louisiana as Miss Haile, kept out of sight, never saw her husband drill or play football...
...Little Flower's canonization, Mrs. Post's Newport, R. I., estate, Stoneleigh, became a monastery of the Third Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Mrs. Post be came a tertiary of the Carmelite order. As a tertiary, she wears the clothes of the Carmelites, vows to follow their strict rule. While it is not obligatory for a novice to live the cloistered life, Mrs. Post will...