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...pleasant rendezvous with other brightened and enlightened who can spend holiday hours hearing inferior lectures which they would cut were they given at college. So perhaps they are quite necessary. At least they do keep the Billy Sunday tradition vital in the college world and give many a young wall flower the chance to escape her destiny of being born to bloom unseen...
Sometimes the impression was made by placing the human hand against a surface and painting around it and between the fingers. In other cases the red paint was daubed over the hand of the artist and that slapped against a wall...
Since the War the Franco-German frontier has been as an imaginary wall, towering into the sky and shutting off air traffic not only between these countries but between Northern and Southern Europe, forcing all such traffic to be circuitously routed through the Netherlands. As everyone knows, this state of affairs has persisted because the French have bitter-endedly enforced the air restrictions imposed upon Germany by the Versailles Treaty, thus causing Germans to retaliate by closing their frontier to French airplanes and to confiscate all French machines forced down on German soil...
Motor Profits. The year's first quarter just ended showed motorcar makers in excellent condition. Where profits available for dividends showed no increase over the corresponding quarter of 1924, the explanation lay for the most part with the internal adjustments of the companies concerned. The Wall Street Journal last week made up a comparative table showing profits for dividends, and per common share earnings the past three years...
...Pelliot of the College de France, who visited Harvard in March to lecture at the Fogg Museum on recent discoveries in Chinese Archaeology is one-of three living scholars who can discipher this Hsi Hsia language. Of their art, little has been known up to this time, and the wall paintings of the caves at Hsiao Ch'ien of which the expedition brought back careful photographic records will, it is hoped, prove of very real significance...