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Over the $25,000 gateway to Northwestern University's downtown Chicago Campus at Lake Shore Drive and Superior St. is a wrought iron sign. Last June workmen chiseled out of it the word "campus," substituted the word "gates." Then it read Alexander McKinlock Memorial Gates. Few people noticed the change, however, and not until last week did Northwesterners learn that their university's famed McKinlock Campus had been renamed the Chicago Campus...
...hope into a much discouraged Europe, if, and only if we will take the initiative either in proposing a concerted plan of action, or in calling a conference to talk over the situation. Although the nobleness of his words will be applauded, Europe is too fatigued and over-wrought to take effective action on her part. As the London Times so bluntly put it, "How can the United States consistently pursue a single policy to keep...
...That the President, by apparently abandoning his original arguments for Court reform, had now confessed that they were a mere disguise. The man who four months ago was Republican nominee for Vice President was last week so wrought up by Mr. Roosevelt's change of tactics that he wrote and signed an editorial in his Chicago Daily News which expressed the peak of Republican apprehension. Excerpts...
...mark of favor, Popes once bestowed finely-wrought golden roses upon churches, cities, monarchs. Since the 17th Century only Catholic queens, princesses and eminent noblemen have been given such honors. Pius XI has blessed a Golden Rose every year since 1922, but so scarce were Catholic Majesties that he bestowed only two: upon Spain's Queen Victoria in 1923, upon Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians...
...serious defect then appeared. The sudden load increase nearly overtaxed the Hackensack generators; it was evident that the votes of an audience several times bigger would have wrought havoc with the power plant. Moreover, the broadcasters could not help wondering how many lazy or indifferent listeners had simply not bothered to switch on a bulb, although they were listening to the program...