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...days when Princeton men wore corduroys and shaved only once a week, when the name of Princeton ranked high in the athletic world, but how many of them would give us a job if we walked into their offices dressed that way? Most of us are preparing a cultural background to stand us in good stead during a life of business, and there is no reason why we should not begin behaving like gentlemen before we graduate. The popularity of squash, tennis and golf has become so great at Princeton that measures have been taken to keep down the number...
...Mumford at this point we are forced to part company. Winslow Homer we are willing to praise, but the other two are unworthy of the high position the author accords them. Perhaps the fault lies in the perspective of each individual reader--Mr. Mumford has evidently forgotten his European background...
When Mr. Dreiser's account, together with the report of his committee yet to be published, is divested of prejudice and examined against the background of history, the incident will remain one of the year's outstanding examples of the wrong way to meet an extreme business emergency. Enlightened business will probably view it as one of the results of the lack of organized planning in a period of over-expansion. Economists may view it as another symptom of the passing of Old King Coal. Sociologists may attribute its extremity to the lack of education in the district in which...
First Logan prize went to Russian-born Morris Kantof for a composition entitled "The Haunted House." Against the background of an early American cottage interior looms a dark shadow, through the shadow are dozens of little cottages. Chicagoans were puzzled...
...provide a background for Colman's savoir faire, Hecht & MacArthur made him a patrician burglar seeking what seems a most unlikely sanctuary in a ruined castle on the Algerian desert. He reaches this stronghold by making off with a fancy auto in which Estelle Taylor had hoped to haul him off to the authorities, for a reward. Among the denizens of the ruined castle ?a doctor who has murdered three wives and uses the skull of one for an ash tray; a blood-thirsty colonel; an aged, blind embezzling financier?Colman enjoys a badman's holiday. He plots with...