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Miss Hawley's "The Foundlings" is in lighter vein. Two young girls happen, by mistake, into apartments which are in temporary use by a young lord, and are discovered there by two of his men friends, while they are paying him a visit. The complications that ensue are deftly handled with consummate skill, and the result is a delicate little comedy bubbling over with humor of delicious spontaneity...
...chatting with some of the better known men of the country at such a place as a University Tea. Today Dr. and Mrs. Endicott Peabody of Groton will assist in receiving at the Tea. We believe that the custom of having special guests on these occasions, whether they happen to be the weekly University preachers or not, is one to be decidedly encouraged. Especially should the committee in charge attempt to have the heads of the larger preparatory schools present, for often the college man, unable to return to school, would seize this chance to keep in touch with former...
...industries in which monopoly conditions are found were these monopolies established without resort to predatory methods, which are contrary to the common law. It is often assumed that costs of production are lessened through the monopoly organization of industry. At the outset, it does often happen that savings are made in the expense of marketing and through the adoption in all plants of the best methods in use in the various plants included in the combination. But that progressive improvement will go on as rapidly as under competition is far from certain...
...strongest machines in years and aware of the fact that a victory over Yale will give it a clear title to the championship. The Yale authorities realize this and are putting unusual emphasis on the preparations for Princeton. Yet no matter how good or how bad Princeton elevens happen to be by hearsay, there is each year the usual high grade football to be seen at the Yale-Princeton game. So far fortune has favored the New Jersey team, against Harvard and especially against Dartmouth, where an acknowledged fluke gave Princeton the victory over what was seen...
...likely to go to Cornell or University of Pennsylvania. Cornell's main strength lies in the runs, but the team has also some good field event men. On the other hand, the Pennsylvania aggregation is a well-balanced one and will take many seconds and thirds. It will probably happen that one of the two will detract a sufficient number of points from the other so as to allow Yale to slip into second place. The University team will have Michigan to contend with for fourth place, with the odds in favor of the latter for the position. The actual...