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...board indulges in other activities for which it receives no stipend: e.g., the annual selection of outstanding films and performances. In this unsubsidized function, the board says what it thinks. Of 1937's pretentious crop, it found unpretentious Night Must Fall the best. Of 20 films mentioned, ten were foreign-made. Leading the performers was French Harry Bauer, in the Prague-made The Golem; high up was Soviet Nikolai Cherkassov (Baltic Deputy). Hollywood's 14-year-old Jackie Cooper made the list; the industry's 1937 darling, Mr. Paul Muni...
...more serious is the fact that the Freshman class will continue to elect officers for whom there is no useful function. These officers will still fill the Jubilee and Smoker committees with their own friends and bask in the light of a prestige they do not deserve...
Prime purpose of the change will serve to give the Union Committee an added period in which to prosecute any additional Union activities for the benefit of the Class. At the same time the change will not interfere with any legitimate function of the three elected officers, and it will give the electorate additional time in which to consider its prospective candidates...
...block in hi's program of utility simplification as Electric Bond & Share. United not only is one of the biggest utility holding companies but it is the utility operator's conception of a beneficent holding company. It exercises no control over the operations of its subsidiaries, its function is wholly financial. In an industry where it is necessary to invest about $6 to do $1 worth of business (U. S. utilities last year had total gross sales of $2,200,000,000 from a fixed capital of $14,370,000,000) financing is vital. Therefore top utility...
...editors of the "Oldest College Daily,"' and the editors of every other college publication, our own included, should ask themselves if this code still obtains, if American college journalism still serves a useful function; and still warrants its perpetuation...