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Hotel prestige is a fickle thing; to maintain it is difficult. The backers of the new Waldorf-Astoria have undertaken an even more difficult task, that of recreating in the new hotel all the grandeur and glory of the old semi-national institution at Fifth Avenue and 34th Street, qualities which had begun to fade long before the building's demolition...
...discourage business men and public officials from setting college education as criteria for employment. Instead of the present "overemphasis on purely intellectual occupations," let there be a "saner appreciation of the dignity of manual labor and other practical work." Universities should not lower their standards in order to maintain present enrolments...
...Burpees are the Starks who came less recently into the Burbank activities. Judge James Stark, home from the War of 1812, founded the company in the territory explored (1806-07) by General Zebulon Pike which then stretched from the Mississippi to the Santa Fe. Today the Stark organization maintains the oldest nurseries in the U. S., the largest in the world. On 3,992 acres, in plantations located in seven States they propagate fruit trees, roses, shrubs. In France, too, they maintain nurseries. They employ nearly a thousand men and women. About 15.000 commission salesmen represent them. Every year they...
...Starks took over the Sebastopol Burbank Test Orchards which they now maintain for development and test of Burbank fruits which Burbank never had time to introduce. Most important result of their work is Burbank's Elephant Heart plum, a red-fleshed plum almost as big as a, baseball, the first freestone, blood-fleshed plum ever developed. Trees to bear this luscious giant planted two years ago (from Wisconsin to Alabama, California to New York) have lived and borne this year despite dry summer and hard winter...
L.A.C.M. will emit publicity, maintain a fact-finding bureau, enlist the aid of prominent persons, help its constituent colleges raise money. It now has 235 member-colleges, Protestant, Catholic and Jewish, with an average enrolment of 600, average assets...