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...Hopkins' well-financed campus, says Economist Long, an average professor earned $5,700 in 1940. With a salary of $7,975 today, he gets only $4,154 in terms of pre-World War II dollars. Says Long: "The decline in purchasing power of 27%-before a single per centum is deducted for income tax-would outrage anybody but a teacher...
...postea vos salutamus. Supra mundum plebrum perturbatum, tranquilli in lucis et veritatis contemplatione, tumidi erbriique noctu magno cum convivio recubuisti et de rebus omnibus lingua mortua maiorum orationem habuisti. Qui vella Chicagoensia tradit in eruditionis altioris mysteria vos initiavit. Soli ex omnibus filiis Yaleusibus discipulis rudibus demississque ubertatem verborem centum librorum pulverulentium commendatione dignorum a Roberto Hutchins exhausisti...
...phrase "intoxicating liquor" shall be construed to include alcohol, brandy, whiskey, rum, gin, beer, ale, porter and wine and in addition thereto any spirituous, vinous, malt or fermented liquor, liquids and compounds, whether medicated, proprietary, patented or not and by whatever name called containing one-half of 1 per centum or more of alcohol by volume which are fit for use for beverage purposes...
...from and after the passage of this act any beverage obtained by the alcoholic fermentation of an infusion or decoction of barley, malt, cereals and hops in drinkable water or by the natural fermentation of apple or other fruit, vegetable or herb juices containing not more than 2.75 per centum* of alcohol by volume may be manufactured, sold or transported for sale in original packages for consumption in homes and places other than the place of sale...
CARISSIMI JOHNNIES TRANSATLANTICI, - Audimus vos vivere in altero Cambrigio Americanio, quod nos vapulat ut specialiter rummum. Sentimus tamen obligati mittere advosfraternas congratulationes in hac auspiciosa occasione anniversarii vestri. Non novimus antea aliquam rem in America esse tam antiquam quam duo centum anni, sed vos cognoscitis optime circumid...