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...general attitude of the students here towards studies is perhaps a little difficult to understand. At first one would think Harvard students are a pretty lazy bunch. Eight o'clock classes practically don't exist. A nine o'clock is an atrocity, a ten o'clock only tolerable, while the most popular hours are eleven and twelve o'clock lectures...
Purity. "The bedroom farce and the sex novel do not exist in Russia. . . . There is a refreshing freedom from sex consciousness. . . . Men and women go swimming in the same lake or river, without bathing suits. . . ." Thus Miss Thompson plumbs the purity of Russian minds...
...members are "hazed" and "razzed" cruelly. Favorite tortures are to sell them stocks which do not exist, deliver them bogus orders from telephone booths, induce them to smoke ($15 fine...
...Banks. The interrelation of Mr. Giannini's fiscal organizations seems inexplicable. It is not. As yet there exist only two great organizations, with their activities mainly in California and in New York. Later he hopes to have a web of banks in each of the twelve Federal Reserve bank districts...
...Esquimo Pie Corp. (bars of chocolate-covered ice-cream) challenged Honeymoon Pie Corp. (bars of chocolate-covered ice-cream) on its right to exist. Esquimo sued for damages, alleging that Honeymoon had infringed on its 1921 patent. In Brooklyn, N. Y., last week, Federal Judge Marcus B. Campbell announced that unpatented Honeymoon pies could continue to compete with patented Esquimo pies. Explained Judge Campbell: Ice cream and candy had been coated with chocolate long before 1921 (for example, chocolate creams). In 1907, one Val Miller had written a book in which he told how to make "cannonballs," a confection differing...