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...bonded indebtedness of the islands at the end of 1922 was 143,920,000 pesos, of which 135,500,000 pesos were obligations of the Insular Government (the rest provincial and municipal). ¶ The former President and three other officials of the National Bank are in jail. ¶ By stringent economies Government expenses have been reduced (figures in pesos) : Receipts Expenditures 1922 61,000,000 79,000,000 1923 66,302,560 † 65,677,327†. About 2,500,000 pesos of the Government expenditure in 1922 went into the enterprises (sugar, oil, coal, tobacco) which the Government...
...agitation, but several minor improvements have been made and, by the lively discussion, facts have been brought before the student body. Above all, a general interest has been stimulated among the undergraduates, an interest which would seem to point to a certainty of a gradual liberalization of the more stringent rules now in effect...
...easy to account for the Freshman's apathy toward a chapel service. Perhaps he has come from a "prep" school where daily chapel, twice on Sunday, is an irksome compulsion; perhaps from a home where the parental regulation was equally stringent; or again his previous church affiliations may have been unsympathetic or distasteful. For all these reasons he welcomes the tolerance of Harvard, and interprets the freedom from necessary church attendance as a sort of compulsion to stay away. Strangely enough, this feeling does not always wear off with the passing of Freshman or even Sophomore year. Boastful Juniors have...
Where it will end it is impossible to say. A not improbable suggestion would be to put a ban on all books in the Library--not allow them out of the building; with probation or dismissal as the punishment for offenders. A less stringent regulation would require the satisfactory identification by officials of every book leaving the Library doors. Each of these rulings would mean that every individual would have to submit to a search every time he used the Library; and actions, in most cases, have been known to "speak louder than words...
Among other distinguished visitors stopping in Cambridge over the weekend was General Hilarity. His first appearance was at the Copley, where in spite of the somewhat stringent regulations he appears to have had a pleasant time; inspired by the victory and "the crimson hue of the evening sky" (see any newspaper), be was prevailed upon to take part in a scrimmage at the Colonial Theatre; and it is believed that he dined incognito at the Waldorf at an early hour Sunday. The old gentleman finally found the excitement a bit too much for his and is now resting quietly...