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...agricultural situation the committee states that the drastic declines of 1920-1921 in prices of farm products have made such commodities as grain and live stock cheap when compared with coal, building materials, machinery, and other manufactured goods. This is obviously proven by the fact that the wholesale farm products are below the prices of 1918, while the average of all commodities is about 50 per cent above the level of that period, and the prices of many of these manufactured articles are double the pre-war prices. This drop in agricultural products is due to the general collapse...
Numerous cases of swindling by peddlers in the dormitories have been brought to the attention of the University authorities. This is especially true of peddlers who are selling cheap cloth for suits, labelled as expensive imported cloth. Students in the University are warned by the authorities to be extremely careful in all purchases made from peddlers...
...that here among us the influences are too much toward hammering out on the anvil of conventional sentiment 'a standardized type; Not that this tendency may not be too much present in American colleges in general, but our present concern is with Dartmouth life! Given common convictions against the cheap, the low, the unintelligent and the evil, the greater the variety of types and of attributes among Dartmouth men, the stronger the College will be. The evidence of the fault may be taken from less consequential things as well as from more. The presence of an additional button...
...time has gone when the newspaper man is the avowed enemy of the University. Petty anti-college prejudices have passed with the progress of American education. What was once considered smart has become cheap. The jokes on the college man are passing with those state and insufferably dull stories of the absent-minded professor. So much for the question general...
...century ago the cost of books was an important item in the estimation of college expenses. Later, as the development of improved presses made possible the cheap and extensive production of good books, every student with a moderate supply of ready money assembled a small library of his own during his college course. The modern student, however, is no longer able to indulge his natural inclination toward book-collecting; even for the most essential textbooks he often relies upon friend or college library. Under the ever-increasing demand of workmen for more wages, prices have steadily risen until a volume...