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...Corporation has voted to establish an endowment fund which will eventually support both the intercollegiate and intramural program and will set aside a small contribution to the fund each year. Since the War, football receipts have made up more than 80 percent of the athletic budget, but havoc has been caused by the 60 percent decrease in receipts from $706,000 in 1929 to $292,000 last fall...
Since many men are choosing a House for two or three reasons, these results have been tabulated on a percentage basis. Taking the average Freshman, one finds 49.1 percent of his choice based on social reasons; 26.4 percent scholastic; 7 percent physical; 5.2 percent financial; and 10.3 percent on other reasons...
Author Wilson analyzed, question by question, the returns from his own class, found that his students were 66% right on foreign news and 62.8% on national affairs, 46% on science, but only 29% on music & art, 32% on books. Ninety-nine percent knew what country has a Soviet form of government, what Bruno Richard Hauptmann was tried for. Almost as many could tell what the Townsend Plan is about. Scarcely any, on the other hand, could pick the reason for unusual interest in last summer's Salzburg Music Festival (TIME, Sept. 3), or name the city which was offered...
Forty-six percent of the Class of 1938 prefers to exercise in the winter by swimming and squash. Out of a total of 1,016 Freshmen participating in athletics, 239 swim, 231 are squash racquetmen, and 119 take special corrective exercise. Participants Percent Swimming 239 23.5 Squash 231 22.6 Special Exercise 119 11.8 Track 86 8.4 Basketball 84 8.3 Crow 65 6.4 Boxing 47 4.6 Wrestling 44 4.3 Fencing 44 4.3 Hockey 22 2.2 Gymnasium 11 1.1 Polo 9 .9 Managers 8 .8 Miscellaneous...
Queried on the reaction of the players to the percent reform movement, the actress declared that it was well received since there was great dissatisfaction with the offensiveness of these pictures. "Movies and politics were alike," she twigged "they both needed cleaning...