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We students received with great rejoicing the news of Kipling's recovery from his recent illness. No greater calamity could happen to the literary world today t han the death of this great and good author. Kipling is the college-man's friend. Every student is a worshipper at the Kipling shrine. Kipling seems to have written his greatest poems to young men, and that is why young men everywhere will be heard quoting Mandalay and Fuzzy Wuzzy and Ginga Din instead of Byron and Burns and Shelly as they did in the past.

Another great source of rejoicing to us here at Stanford is the passage of the Tax Exemption bill relieving Stanford from the onerous burden of taxation which the STate has levied on the University estate.

Only four states in the Union tax their Universities, and California has