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...five and wife of my able vice president, John T. Cassidy, is a businesswoman. Her company 'Clio et Claire' does a nice business in cosmetics. Last week I was said to have chuckled when she announced: 'It is ridiculous to say that women must always affect the same makeup. With some frocks, for example, red lips and pale cheeks only clash. Why shouldn't women paint their lips green? Or blue...
...Yale University contains little that is new and a great deal that is just. The public may be tired of the oft-repeated assertion that teachers are underpaid but until the instructor is given at least a living wage such repetition should be continued. Eventually poor salaries may affect others than the unfortunate instructors and their families, fears; Dr. Angell. He foresees a steady decline in the quality of young teachers, who are not blessed with an independent income or an heiress in marriage...
Demand was poor because people with little money to spend curtailed purchases and those with much money bought silk and rayon. This year the advertising of cotton clothes will seriously affect woolen goods...
Asked if, when he smiled in front of each audience, he really felt happy, or simply made others think so, Toto replied. "Yes, I'm always happy, and the response of the audience doesn't affect me in the least. Sometimes, I don't even hear their applause, and it is very seldom that I see them. You see, when I'm on stage, I alwas squint," (and here he demonstrated for his interviewer.) "That closes my eyes...
...automobiles in a university is governed--as in all such proportions of virtue as opposed to temptation--by the strength of character which the individual possesses. To prevent a student of high ranking from driving an automobile is to give unpleasant medicine to a healthy person. If automobiles do affect scholarship they should be forbidden to those on whom the effect is unfortunate--the others might in all justice remain happy in their enjoyment of the wages of virtue...