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There is a new scourge along the side-walks of Mount Auburn Street which has become more annoying than that caused by the generality of beggars which one finds everywhere. This latest attack upon the long-suffering undergraduate indulgence comes from a more juvenile and a more persistent source, from the little boys indeed who beg for "just a penny, mister," or the price of an antiquated Collier's Magazine...
...street. But there are many who are thoughtless enough to encourage their efforts with an extra coin, for back they come in every growing numbers to plead for what they have no right to expect. Not only is this becoming an extreme annoyance to the residents of Mount Auburn Street, but, far more important, it is laying the foundations of shiftlessness in the minds of the boys themselves. It will cease only when the men who have helped to perpetuate it realize that they are contributing not to charity but to youthful degradation...
TIME had quoted from an article in School and Society by Dean Raymond Walters of Swarthmore College. In response to a letter from TIME, Dean Walters wrote : "The authority for my classification of Smith, Wellesley, Vassar, Goucher and Mount Holyoke as the five largest exclusively women's colleges is in the reports I have from about 160 colleges and universities on the approved list of the Association of American Universities. . . . I have signed reports from registrars of all these universities to back the figures given. Please note that they are all of the date Nov. 1, as have.been...
...following men have recently been added to the Finance Committee; Thorndike Dudley Howe Jr., of Boston; Ellis Humphreys, of Mount Kisco, N. Y.; Edmuch Balch Jackson, of Cambridge; Malcolm Price Whitaker, of Washington...
...Mount Wilson Observatory announced that it had completed measurement of the variable star Mira and found it to be, by angular measurement, .06 of a second of arc - about 25% larger than Betelgeuse. It is believed to be about 165 light years distant, which makes its diameter about 250,000,000 miles. Only one larger star, Antares, has been measured.* Therefore, if the centre of Mira were where the center of our Sun is, the orbit of the Earth would be some 25,000,000 miles inside the surface of Mira...