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...very good either. To his hotel come a nouveau riche family from the frequently-pulverized Middle West, accompanied by a "French maid". Let us explain the character: the exterior finish is by Vivaudou, Inc., the housing by Behrens (courtesy of Louis Silvers) but underneath is the one-hundred- per-cent, red-blooded, honest-to-God frame and speaking voice of H. N. Pratt '24, and our personal prediction is that if he doesn't make a name for himself in the performance in Boston, New York, Baltimore and Washington, it is no fault of the Pratts. Anyhow, one thing leads...
...same statistician who two years ago declared a raise in wages justified by the increase a living expenses has now pronounced a reduction of ten per-cent in order. The workers, however, reply as usual with a demand for shorter hours at the increased pay. The exorbitant cost of production is eventually passed on to the purchase, and the price of books soars steadily upward. When publishers are forced to curtail the printing of textbooks because they can not sell enough to make one edition profitable, college students may well take alarm at modern labor conditions...
...their graduates than have the colleges and universities of this country, and a greater proportion of them have been killed. The University of Toronto, for instance, contributed about 5,400 men from students' bench and professors' chair, of whom 604 gave up their lives, or somewhat more than 10 per-cent. Similar contributions have been made by Oxford and Cambridge, and by other English and Scotch universities. Over 11,176 Oxford men had enrolled by the middle of the war, and afterward the number was much greater; 1,412 had laid down their lives and 100 were missing...
...strength-record made by A. O. Christensen '06 a few weeks ago will not be allowed to go on record, because a required per-cent was not attained in one of the exercises and too much time was devoted to another. The record made by F. W. C. Foster '03 last year will also probably he barred for the same reason...
...same as eight hours of elective work for one year. The point which we endeavored to make was that the requirements for Honorable Mention, as such, should be the same for all subjects. On this basis, it is reasonable that the requirement in English composition should be 80 per-cent for all the work that comes under that head, even though it is not equivalent to eight hours; for any system of compensations, if once introduced, must be carried on indefinitely to arrive at any real equalization of the amount of work done in different branches. This is manifestly inadvisable...