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THE BATTALION 3 Collegiate World FEAR STUDENT RIOTS Havana, Cuba, (IP)—Fear on the part of the government here that the present precarious political situation might lead to riots among students were they gathered at college, has led authorities of the National Univer sity here to postpone the opening of the institution from Oct. 1 to Nov. 10. By that time the election of senators and representatives will have been held. STUDENTS MUST CONCENTRATE Did You Know ANCIENT SURGICAL KIT Salt Lake City—(IP)—What ar cheologists describe as a pre-historic surgical kit has been discovered be neath a cliff dwelling near the Utah- Arizona border by members of the Charles L. Bernheimer expedition of the American Museum of Natural History. The kit, which contains a variety of wooden instruments, all well preserved, was hidden in a hollow tube, covered by the skin of an animal. Archeologists believe that the sur gical instruments were used by a race known as basket weavers, many years before the arrival of the cliff dwellers. STUDENTS NOT TOO RADICAL lege students are not at all the wild eyed radicals they some times are pic tured to be, but expresses the belief that they desire change only for the future benefit of humanity. She believes student bodies repre sent the same variety of thinkers that any other groups do. Thus, she be lieves, the college campus has its stu dent minds ranging all the way from the most radical to the most conser vative. UNIFORM TAILOR SHOP Tailor Made Shirts and Breeches Blouses and Slacks MENDL & HORNAK, Props. State College, Pa. (IP)—Lack of concentration is the greatest handicap which high school students have when entering college, it was found by Penn sylvania College authorities in a ques- tionaire sent to students here. Other difficulties which the fresh men revealed were lack of knowledge of how to study, of how to budget working time, of how to choose among the various subjects on the curriculum. AUTOMOBILE VS. EDUCATION Washington, (IP)—Figures which have been compiled by the Research Division of the National Education As sociation indicate that Americans spend more than five times as much for passenger automobiles each year as they do for the education of their children in the public schools. In 1928 the country spent less than $2,500,000,000 for public education be low the college grade, while it spent $12,500,000,000 for motor cars. The survey further indicates that three times as much as was spent on education was spent on tobacco, candy, soft drinks and amusement of various sorts. MEASURE HEAT OF TINY STAR Washington, (IP)—The Carnegie Institution has announced that its scientists have found it possible to measure the heat from an unnamed star which is 631 times fainter than the faintest star visible to the un aided eye. The tiny heat wave was caught by an instrument weighing one-thous andth of that of a drop of water and called a thermacouple. Dr. Herman Schneider, president of the University of Cincinnati, hopes to eliminate many of the complex ities of university organization by providing for five major university divisions: Liberal arts, economics, or engineering and commerce, human adjustments, physical and mental health, and fine arts, the last four corresponding to the divisions of mankind’s professional activities. By J. A. Barnes Russell Woodall, of the Artillery, was the first to join “The Prince of Wales Club” this year? ? ? ? ? Petroleum is a rock ? ? ? ? ? Dr. F. W. 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