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...DESTROYED BY TEUTONIC FURY; RESTORED BY AMERICAN GENEROSITY." Thus reads the inscription that is to be carved on the fa?ade of the new Library at Lou vain, work on which was ordered resumed last week by Whitney Warren, Manhattan architect...
...least from hailing distance, what is primarily an undergraduate function. A suggestion for change now can do no possible good to those who feel the burden of a present cross, but for future generations of undergraduates, as the saying goes, perhaps it will not have been suggested in vain...
...effective voices, but many times it has been heard for five miles. The so-called Harvard cheering section of Saturday must have numbered over 2000; I doubt if it was heard beyond the Yard and after Purdue scored a listener in the Square could not have heard it. In vain did cheerleaders repeatedly plead for noise; the section sat stricken dumb, cigarettes drooping, pepless lips feebly echoing the words of the leaders or telling those nearby just what this or that man ought to have done. At times the Band played and the inspiring notes of "O'er the stands...
...Aycock and his fellows have tried in vain to obtain a serum from the blood of artifically infected monkeys, for the monkey, although the only animal susceptible to the disease, is so sensitive that it cannot survive the attack of the paralysis germ. For this reason the Commission is requesting volunteers, survivors of the disease, to come forward with offers of their own blood. So far as results to date have been tabulated, the serum treatment seems a remedy for infantile paralysis if it is administered within the three days which ordinarily elapse between infection and actual paralysis...
International Mercantile Marine stockholders last week decided to exchange vain mementoes of a frustrated plan, for new shares that seemed to promise them actual dividends. The late J. P. Morgan organized I. M. M. 25 years ago, close to the time when he organized the U. S. Steel Corp. His ideal was to create great corporations that would lead their fields. In steel he succeeded: in shipping he failed. The overdue, unpaid dividends on I. M. M. preferred stock now amount to tidy millions. The common stock, under such circumstances, has of course earned nothing...