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...Yale game, Saturday, November 22, but no man whether in good standing, on probation, or on trial, will be held to the attendance of his classes on that day so far as the Dean's Office is concerned. However, the effect of absence upon a grade in a course will in every case be determined by the instructor. Cuts of the last class before and the first class after the day of the Yale game (November 22), will be treated in the same manner as holiday cuts...
Last week a deal was announced which removes one of the mysteries in PRC, will also be a milestone in its history. Long have there been rumors that PRC would go into the power business, using its own small grade anthracite and reclaiming culm banks for fuel. Last year, with several such power plants operating, PRC sought power franchises in 33 townships. Last week all PRC power properties were sold to Pennsylvania Power & Light Co., prosperous subsidiary of National Power & Light Co., member of the Electric Bond & Share group. In return, PRC will be given a large block of National...
Even the little boys at his Brooklyn public school teased gangling Arnold Baker. They made fun of him because he was 14 and still in the fifth grade, they shoved him about at recess time, shrilled derisive nicknames at him, called him "Big Boy," "Daddy Longlegs," "High-Pockets." Timid, lonely High-Pockets had a bad time of it. One day last week High-Pockets refused to go to school, again begged his mother to let him quit and go to work. When she went out, High-Pockets locked every door and window in the house, crawled up to and stuck...
...disclosures of so grave a nature as to justify talk of warrants for arrest, indictments. Metal & Mining Shares had falsified an earnings report by which it showed $324,000 profit for the first half of the year. The list of investments which it reported was likewise falsified. The high-grade bluechips said to constitute the $6,000,000 portfolio had been syphoned out, many securities of speculative Bob mining promotions sucked in. And in the company's safe reposed none of the securities it owned...
...course the cream of the milking, the grade A girls, are pretty well pleased, while all the others who managed to keep out of "no man's land", that area where strangely enough the signs of battle are least in evidence, can't kick. And at least the tail enders can console themselves with the thought that they are in the majority, which is what counts in this democratic country of ours...