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...types--the older, which lie nearer the center of the university site, and the newer type, at a considerably greater distance. I shall describe first a building of the former type. The rooms are usually about ten by six feet in size, and eight feet high. In the walls there are sockets which indicate that they once supported some sort of projections or shelves. These no doubt were used as auxiliary sleeping quarters. Thus four students must have been accommodated in one of these tiny rooms. In addition there were similar rooms, without the wall-sockets and often with fire...
...could wish. Downing and Veno, the two chief threats in the Westminster forward line, met an impenetrable barrier every time they went down the ice. Again and again one of these would try to break through at the far left-hand side of the rink, would meet a stone wall in Walker or Hill, shift the attack to the center, and repulsed there would finally stop dead when he reached the right-hand boards and Baker. Small, the much-heralded Westminster defense player, met the same fate, his showing throughout the evening being of the most mediocre type...
...them; another, making a bid for favor among its readers consequently is for it; still others, playing entirely upon sentiment, and having no regard for economic laws or anything else of even a semi-logical nature, will openly and blatantly advocate a bonus--the bill to be footed by Wall Street in some mysterious manner. But what is the general feeling of the people about the question? It is unfortunately true that when any such proposition is before the public mind, sentiment is the most influential in determining its opinion. The sentiment behind giving World War Veterans a present...
...annual contest is one of the highest honors atainable at the Law School, and the competition never fails to arouse much public interest in its progress. Members of the winning club who argued are each given a prize, and their names are placed on the panel on the north wall of the main reading room in Langdell Hall. This year there are two prizes, $200 going to the Kent Club as the winner, while a reward of $100 has been awarded the Warren Club by virtue of its position as runner...
...other speakers this week include Mr. A. D. Skelding, the former Dean of the Babson Institute of Business, who will speak Thursday noon on the subject, "Wise Guys of Wall Street"; and Mr. Whiting Williams, the labor authority, who will address the luncheon on Friday...