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...past few years, the undergraduate addresses at Commencement have been rather futile. In the main, the harangues have been drab, the speakers practically unknown to their classmates, and the general tone that of a stilted secondary school valedictory address. The situation this year is peculiarly grim. The undergraduate chosen from the competition to deliver the annual address is unable to be at the exercises leaving the Commencement officials to search about for a budding Demosthenes...
...unfortunate that the American publishers gave the volume a drab, ugly binding and failed to correct a variety of typographical errors...
...gross tons per freight-locomotive mile or average cars per passenger-train mile, an inquisitive stockholder may learn how many hopper-bottom gondolas he owns or what percentage of main and branch lines are laid with 131-lb. rails. As conservative as the roads themselves, official statements are perennially drab in format. Last week Union Pacific broke its tradition of severe grey covers by dressing up its annual report for 1935 with a picture of a streamlined locomotive with a bright-colored U. P. shield on its snout. Though in an enterprising industrial company such a change would cause...
Leonard Porter Ayres describes himself as a "drab old man." Spare, greying, humorous, he is executive vice president of Cleveland Trust Co. and the author of that bank's famed Business Bulletin, a little four-page monthly that is read by at least 40,000 people and quoted by the Press for millions more. .In simple charts and simpler English he "tells things which the bank's directors and customers want to know...
...happy to say that despite our materialistic way of things our Alice is just as real today as are the dreams of children. It is therefore fitting that we remember Mr. Carroll today who has brought such a bit of beauty to our lives so often all too drab...