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...months, said President Gustavus Franklin Swift, U. S. meat-eaters had consumed nearly three pounds more meat and lard than the year before. The forced marketing of drought-stricken animals had led the company at times to operate "at a rate far beyond what it had always regarded as peak capacity...
...last week, the U. S. art season was at its peak. In Manhattan there were no less than 70 exhibitions in progress. The public could see and buy practically anything it wanted. On 57th Street Edward Bruce was exhibiting the landscape technique and Chinese perspective he developed under the watchful eye of Maurice Sterne. Sir Francis Rose, Gertrude Stein's latest painter-protege, was showing his sultry canvases. The Museum of Modern Art was aflame with Van Goghs, Cezannes, Toulouse-Lautrecs. At the New School for Social Research Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Robert Brackman, John Sloan and Alexander Brook were impressing their...
...Harvard men living in Cambridge a set of Christmas seals accompanied by a plea to keep the seals and return a dollar. That Harvard men respond nobly to such demands is shown by the fact that in 1930, the record year, 2300 Crimson dollars were solicited away. From this peak contributions have declined slowly every year to the 1933 figure of $1689.81, a sum collected from 1713 students...
...number of visiting scholars also shows a slight decrease over the peak figure of last year. Though the number of such scholars is large, 637, the majority of them stay with us for only brief intervals and the bulk of their visits falls during the summer, when it is easy to accommodate callers from outside...
...teams that will fight out the annual classic on this field tomorrow both seem confident of victory, but the Elis' fighting enthusiasm appear to have been dulled by the long ordeal of a week ago. Both physically and mentally the Blue is far off the peak which it reached on the eve of the clash with the Tiger, while Harvard's young team impressed observers with its optimism and cheerfulness as it ran through a skeleton practice today...