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Recovery has lately carried the magic figure to that level and more. Approaching the seasonal autumn peak, carloadings last week topped 800,000 for the first time in six years. The gain over the corresponding week of 1935 was 28%, but the comparison was distorted somewhat by the coal strike a year ago. So far this year carloadings have averaged 13.3% above the 1935 figure, though weekly gains last summer when general business was unseasonably good ran well above...
...Nicoll begins with a disingenuous comparison of the present-day cinema with Elizabethan drama. What appears to be an account of our cinema, "a thing of almost mushroom growth, having a valid tradition which extended over no more than a few decades," whose managers "were intent only on what the box office receipts testified to be of immediate appeal," is a criticism equally applicable to the drama in Shakespeare's day. Having but placed us in a receptive state of mind, Mr. Nicoll proceeds to give an historical summary of the amazingly swift development of the cinema from its genesis...
Professor Rand gave the principal speech of the evening; addressing the students as fellow alumni, he proved that they were really alumni, so short was their term as undergraduates in comparison with the age of the College. Chief pun of the evening was his witty declension of "California...
...basis of comparison, Author Tunis uncovered a post-graduate-report of Harvard's Class of 1811, found that a full quarter became lawyers, that most were politically alert, that many were distinguished public servants. Class of 1911 produced no mayor, governor, congressman, or state legislator. Largest occupational classification was "manufacturing," whose average income was $3,000. The insurance salesman, "of whom we have a number," received the lowest pay: $1,200. Remarks Author Tunis: "As long as taxation and the Government let them alone, they are complacently happy...
This Freshman class, the class of 1939, excelled the record of the previous year's Freshman class. This year 25.4 per cent of the class of 1939 passed with honors, minimum marks of 3 1-2 B's and 1-2 C, in comparison to the 21.6 per cent figure made by the class of 1938 in its freshman year. The number this year in the lowest rank group was 5 per cent, in comparison to the figure of 8.6 per cent for the class of 1938 in the previous year...