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Contending that vast university building programs result in underpaid professors, Yandell Henderson, professor of Physiology at Yale recently made known percentage figures of the amounts of university incomes devoted to salary use. Yandell's figures are as follows: Johns Hopkins 65 percent; Princeton 42 per cent; Yale 43 per cent; and Harvard 23 per cent. No estimate as to the relative total income figures was named reported, but Harvard was named as the leading fire in this present lamented state of things...
...commented, "lies in the fact that warring powers such as the United States and great Britain could wreak unbearable damage on each other's commerce. People are beginning to see their mutual dependence. The freedom of the seas means the freedom of neutrals to charge from 300 to 2000 percent extra freight for carrying supplies to your enemy, and will never be observed in war, spiritual bonds notwithstanding...
...offered to. A group of young ladies from Southern California are out to buy masculine scalps for which they are willing toupee. They are willing to supply the entire funds for the company of a perfect man during the evening. If he rates fifty percent in their estimation, he must perforce pay half. The lower in their esteem the male falls, "the greater share he must foot." In other words, he must toe the mark...
...girls have set up a chart to which the boys must conform. Intelligence counts twenty points, the highest. The ability to understand the word "no" counts five percent, the lowest. Which all boils down to the fact that a young man can be ninety-five percent perfect and have a pretty good time for a dime...
Social poise is also five percent which, in all fairness, seems a bit low. After all there isn't much fun in going out if you haven't social boys. But at that the idea is not a bad one. For a long time men have been forced to do their own choosing and their own paying. It will come to the women, after this sort of thing has gone on for a while, that it is not so easy to find the perfect being and to pay for it once you have it. And if this goes...