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...There will be virtually no jobs available for members of the Class of 1935, unless several students in that class, who now hold positions, do not apply for work next year. This results from the fact that assignments to jobs are made roughly in the proportion of 40 percent to Seniors, 30 percent to Juniors, and 30 percent to Sophomores...
Even in these days of abject pessimism at least one business organization is finding conditions much less adverse than supposed. The Cycle Trades of America, a trust more in keeping with muttonleg sleeves than air transport lines, has announced that the bicycle is coming back. If a thirty percent increase in bicycle sales over 1928 is any criterion, we shall soon be discarding our Fords, if any, in favor of the more economical two-wheeler. Wellesley has already grappled with the problem of four hundred careless cyclists--women drivers are as dangerous on two as on four wheels and Princeton...
...frequent dishonesty which have graced the laissez-faire operation of the American banking system. Incompetent management led to the failure of hundreds of small, undercapitalized state banks in the West which folded up at the first signs of receding prosperity. Dishonesty was largely responsible for the failure of eighty percent of Chicago's banks, was entirely responsible for the unsavory investigation of New York banking houses. When the mighty have fallen so low; it is small wonder that the depositor hastens to the teller's window...
...been appropriated for its construction by the city of Cambridge. The money was raised in two ways: $20,000 in a tax levy definitely for this purpose made in 1931 by the order of the legislature; $230,000 in a loan for 20 years at three and one half percent interest, which was obtained by a bond issue distributed on Feb. 1 through the local-bankers
...Freshmen were the most divided of all: 20.9 percent held bull sessions regularly, 3.6 per cent had extra-curricular activities, and 11.8 per cent didn't know what they did! Only two out of every six rooms were occupied when the reporter first called at Dunster, and three out of six in both Lowell and Leverett, whereas the Yard rooms were nearly five...