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...many a newspaper the program drew meager headlines; more exciting as immediate news had been the selection of Philadelphia as the convention city, of June 24 as the convention date. Dopesters had picked Chicago; GOP wiseacres wanted to meet in borderline Illinois. But Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly promised a mingy $125,000 to meet convention expenses; more eloquently Philadelphia's Mayor Robert Lamberton promised to lay $200,000 on the line. Money talked...
...three argue that brains and dollars don't always go together. Not every child of well-to-do parents is able to profit by higher education, while on the other hand there are many able students whose family resources are meager. Those who stand to benefit by advanced training should be sorted out from every economics class, say the three theorists. The remaining young people, rich and poor alike, ought to be provided with a broad training to fit them for citizenship in a democracy, but should not waste their time in protracted studies. In other words, there ought...
Both the News and the Prince are making the mistake of generalizing on the basis of one single game. The most logical explanation for the meager 32,000 at the Bowl last Saturday is simply the one-sidedness of the predictions of the game. It is ironical that after this playing down in the papers the game turned out to be a genuine Big Three thriller. The football public from now on may believe the tradition that a Big Three game is always exciting enough for anybody's $3.85. At least, the Harvard-Yale fans seem to believe...
...results of yesterday's games do not change the league standings but they make the gaps among the first four teams very small. Kirkland leads by a meager half game with Eliot right behind. Then a half game behind the Elephants come Lowell and Dudley...
...operating similar services with success. It is important that such work continue, lest legal aid come to be regarded as the exclusive luxury of the rich. Actually the problems of those financially unable to hire attorneys are even more important in most cases, since any loss of their already meager property is likely to prove disastrous. In giving their best advice to these people the Harvard law students are filling a real public need...