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Last week the London Evening Stand ard commented on the French reduction of visa fees : "France has so many advantages over Britain for the attraction of Americans that we can ill afford to put any obstacles in the way of the potential visitor. There is a tendency on this side of the Channel to imagine that all American travelers are so rich that a few extra dollars in the way of fees will not weigh one way or another. That is quite wrong...
...trustees, following the recent collapse of the Carnegie foundation's pension endowment, has come handsome to the rescue of its faculty, arranging to make good out of the University's treasury the difference between the pensions promised in 1915 and the amount the foundation has discovered it can afford since the January overhauling of its accounts...
...that with Boston College--$79.00 was cleared. This year's financial experience was typical, and not unusual, as the editorial would lead one to believe. By its very nature debating is not a profitable motivity. Harvard is one of the few colleges in the country which does not afford debating a subsidy of from $250 to $5000 annually. It is one of the few colleges which expect debating to pay, and one of the many in which it does...
...Philadelphia. The League schedule provides for three trips away from Cambridge and the entertainment of three visiting teams in Cambridge. The League chooses the questions. These debates have not proved popular in Cambridge, and have attracted smaller crowds than the "free-lance" debates. Hence the Council cannot possibly afford to continue them unless it received a special grant from the College to defray the extra expense.... J. Mack Swigert, '30. Ex-President, Harvard Debating Council...
Died. Butcher Matthias Sticz of Kecskemet, Hungary, 506 Ibs., "fattest man in Europe"; by suicide; in Kecskemet. He shot himself because he could no longer afford beef in the quantity (two roasts) which he required at breakfast...