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...still leaves something to be desired. For a man who is taking four courses, two weeks are certainly not long enough to enable him to track his pet subjects to their sources. The innovation is going too far if, as the administrative announcement implies. Freshman courses are also to suspend class-meetings for those two weeks. The essentially unorganized and undirected work of the reading period can do little but lose valuable classroom time in the elementary and survey courses which make up the Freshman curriculum. First year men, moreover, are having a difficult enough time in acclimating themselves...
...request from 122 business leaders that he declare a "two-year moratorium on destructive competition" (i. e. suspend the anti-trust laws) President Hoover turned a cold shoulder. He rejected the proposal on the ground that the prohibition against price-fixing was as important now as ever...
...trick of Hindu fakirs whose eyes are deeply set is to fit suction cups over their eyeballs and from the cups suspend weights...
...committees of the Round Table Conference prepared to resume sessions 24 native commercial organizations voted to suspend business for a week as a protest against the exclusion of St. Gandhi. The Bombay government retaliated by ordering the arrest of any merchant closing his place of business. At Ahmedabad an Indian surgeon was fined 1,000 rupees for refusing for the third time to remove the Gandhi tricolor from his dispensary. Unimpressed by the much publicized martyrdom of Krishna Kant (TIME, Jan. 25). a British magistrate ordered a 14-year-old boy flogged for picketing a British bank...
There is a possibility that the same words may soon be used in talking about Spring football. Word has come from Harvard that it has been abolished there; that is, the Athletic Association has voted to suspend formal practice, the object being to reduce the emphasis on football. The News, much to the anoyance of those who oppose 'retrenchment," has frequently clamored in the past for just such a suspension of formal practice, but has clamored in vain...