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...suburban station near Guadalajara, a crowd of evil-looking men swarmed into third-class carriages attached to the Mexico City Express...
...fagot of aged stone pillars, fortressed quadrangles, powder turrets -on into Czecho-Slovakia, energetic Republic blazing" with red roofs, factory chimneys, to the place where Prague with its thousand monuments dreams in a fortressed valley. The cost of this trip by plane is $4-the equivalent of a third-class fare by rail; it occupies 1 hour and 40 minutes; the train takes 8 hours, including an hour at the frontier. No wonder that the directors of the Franco-Rumanian line announced last week that their passenger and freight traffic had multiplied by five in the past year...
...engraving of an old hero is about to appear on U. S. postage stamps. Nathan Hale, who was sorry that he had but one life, will be engraved on a new ½-cent stamp (to be used on third-class mail under the new law). The portrait of President Harding which was recently used on a memorial issue, will reappear on a new 1½-cent stamp and 1½-cent stamped envelopes (in sepia) also for use in third-class mail...
...postcards; practically no change on second-class mail (newspapers and periodicals) except that the rates on religious, educational, scientific, etc., publications was increased 1/4c a pound to equal the rate on reading matter in other publications; an increase from 1c to 1 1/2c on each two ounces of third-class matter (books, circulars, etc.) ; a service charge of 2c apiece on parcels post...
Stating emphatically that the present physical dilapidation of Boylston Hall, the main chemical laboratory, is "almost beyond belief", and that thirty-three years ago it was already considered antiquated, the committee asserts that even if this building is extensively repaired, "the only result achieved will be a third-class laboratory that has accommodations for about one-half the number of students that will be forced to work in it. It would be utterly impossible to provide for normal growth by such means...