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...single unofficial grant of $100 and scattered graduate support are the only wherewithal by which the debaters pay their coach and expenses, Packard declared, and a half course in public speaking is all offered by the University in comparison with three full courses in writing...
...students and student organizations in one college know what is happening in other colleges, NSA, will be in a position to start achieving objectives. The educational opportunities of minority groups, to take one example, can be studied by means of information exchanges, perhaps improved through conclusions based on a comparison of differing problems and solutions. No material good will come on such problems as minority groups, or student employment, or cost of living in college, through occasional meetings of regional executive committees. Results will appear only when NSA has set up machinery for week-by-week, day-by-day contact...
...daydreams of grandeur--and upon it they have based a full-sized picture, complete with Goldwyn Girls. The original was simple, poignant, and pathetically amusing. The greatly expanded, glamorized, seat-song-studded cinema product is not; as indeed it could never be. But is this kind of comparison a fair one? Does the mere fact that a picture has lost just about all the spirit of the story that prompted it condemn the picture itself as a separate entity? James Thurber seems to think so, but then maybe he's prejudiced...
...somewhat apologetic explanation of the high profits, Steelman Olds emphasized that the full impact of this year's cost and wage increases had yet to be felt. G.M.'s Chairman Alfred P. Sloan pointed out that in comparison to the last prewar year, G.M.'s profits showed a much smaller percentage increase (32%) than either sales (48%) or payrolls...
...this triumph as a possible turning point in a disappointing season; and for the Bengals the contest will also provide a luscious opportunity to avenge last year's desperate 13 to 12 defeat. Rutgers, Cornell, and Pennsylvania have toppled the Orange and Black earlier in the season, but a comparison of the 13 to 7 Rutgers-Princeton tally with the Cantabs '31 to 7 shellacking puts the invaders at least 6 points in front in the bookies lineup...