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...board ship had the disastrous effect of this one. It is supposed that the Mont Blanc carried a huge amount of the new explosive, trinitrotuluol, T.N.T., a glistening pale-yellow powder, as potent as nitroglycerine, though safer to handle. Moreover, the situation of the ship in the half-mile-wide Narrows, between two rising shores, seems to have caused the blast to rake the city with peculiar effectiveness...
...economist Dean Gay has a wide reputation. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1892 and in 1902 he was honored by the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Berlin. In that year he was appointed instructor in economics in the University, assistant professor in 1906 and in 1908 was made dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration. He is a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences...
Nowhere before have the figures on this year's enrolment in the American colleges been compiled in so comprehensive a survey as appears on another page of this issue. Arrayed in such a nation-wide summary, the facts of the collegiate contribution to the country's man-power for war stand out very clearly. Twenty-one thousand fewer students are enrolled this year than last in 60 representative colleges and universities. The loss has not been confined to the men who have gone into national service after admission to the undergraduate classes but has also included a diminution of more...
France is again in the throes of a political scandal which in more normal times would be creating a world-wide sensation. M. Malvy, for several years Minister of the Interior, whose activities had been shown up in a very bad light at the time of the Bolo Pasha scandal, and who had been subsequently accused in the Chamber of being in league with Germany, requested recently a trial before the Senate for high treason. But the Special Committee of Thirty-Three, charged with the investigation of the accused, has rejected this proposal and suggested to the Chamber that...
Captain D. F. O'Connell '21 is the star runner of the team and the favorite for first place this afternoon. Last Saturday he came in a winner by a wide margin, establishing a new course record at Belmont. Second place was taken by J. E. Nally...