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While not pretending to decide either question, it may be permitted to comment upon them. As regards prohibition, one may with some confidence expect the college vote to favor "more vigorous enforcement of the Prohibition Amendment" rather than modification or repeal. For contrary to newspaper editorials and periodic sudden squalls on the part of reformers, the majority of college students, like the majority of the nation, are unwaveringly dry. More interesting will be the revelation of how strong the minority is in college and how strong the minority of Atlantic Coast states is in the nation...
...interest in the work of body mechanics, which was inaugurated in the University by Dr. Lloyd T. Brown '03, and carried out by Mr. William H. Geer, and his associates. In the Fall of 1923, 68 percent were rated as poor and over 14 percent as very poor. This sudden drop in percentage is due probably to the interest which secondary schools are manifesting in posture work...
...equally close ninth, Mr. Bruce had apparently averted the greatest danger. The insurgents began experimenting with various progressive candidates. Mr. Couzens gained favor and secured the votes of Borah, Gooding, Norbeck, Jones. Mr. Cummins also voted (for the first time) for Mr. Couzens, the object being to prevent a sudden shift of the insurgents from naming Smith. With a fifth day of balloting in sight the 'deadlock continued...
...slowed up the work on the river considerably. When consulted concerning the weather prospects for the immediate future, the Blue Hill observatory at Milton predicted that ice would form, in a few days, along the river banks, but that in all probability there would be no solid freeze. A sudden drop in temperature at any time, however, would accomplish this. At any rate, the two remaining floats and the motor boat are to be taken in and the crew work brought to a close by the end of this week...
...GRAESLER-Arthur Schnitzler- Seltzer ($2.50). Dr. Graesler, middle-aged physician at a small German health-resort, reserved, dry, serious, melancholy, had never had the success in life that his natural abilities promised. Left alone by the sudden suicide of his sister, he was vaguely drawn into a search for belated romance and spiritual content. Three women crossed his path. He quite intended to marry the first, but they misunderstood each other fatally, and nothing came of it. The second became his mistress-and died of scarlet fever contracted from little Fanny, Frau Sommer's child, a patient of Graesler...