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Lectures for the first-half year are asked under the title "Present Day Trends in Religion." The first one is to be given on November 16 by Kirsopp Lake. Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History, and is entitled "The Religion and Educated Men." On Sunday, November 23. S. L. Joshi, Professor of Comparative Religion, Dartmouth College, will speak on "Gandhi as a Prophet...
...reading for stockholders were most of the earnings statements released last week. But bullish items were present. Compiling the first 275 statements issued, National City Bank compared the total first-half earnings with the same period last year, found a 24% drop, compared second-quarter figures with the same period in 1928, found the decline was only 3%. Interpretation: the decline in business, compared to a normal year, is not serious. Equally bullish was the statement issued by U. S. Steel's finance committee: "At this date, the manufacturing plants are operating at about 63% of capacity. Indications . . . point...
Tardy was many a corporation in reporting earnings for the first quarter of 1930, for most corporations had earning shrinkages to announce and the poorer the earnings, the later a report is likely to be. It remained, however, for David Sarnoff s Radio Corp. of America to dispense with any announcement whatsoever by getting permission from the Stock Exchange to omit a first-quarter statement. Exchange rules call for a periodic report of earnings, do not specify quarterly reports. But Radio Corp. was admonished not to omit a first-half report and also to issue quarterly statements thereafter. Official reason...
...first period saw the Elis roll up an apparently commanding lead when the aggressive Yale forward line ran the Crimson backs ragged to score twice. Fletcher and Sleath were the goal-shooters, both taking passes from Ives in sharp scrimmages to slip the ball past Thomas into the Harvard cage. Early in the second quarter Carr counted on a beautiful kick from the sidelines that shot into the goal at an acute angle. At the first-half intermission the Blue...
Professor Whipple expects to stay at the University throughout the first-half year, but he will begin immediately to organize this new and important division. In February he will go to Geneva, Switzerland, the headquarters of the League of Red Cross Societies. He will probably spend several months in the Balkans and the Near East, returning in September...