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From a report of business transacted between July 1, 1929 and April 30, 1930, the Harvard branch of the Society gained on an average of four percent every month, with the exception of December 1929, when the gain was only four tenths of one percent. Over the same period of time, the Business School branch gained seven and one-half percent, while the Technology branch gained three and one-half percent. Of all the departments on the Harvard Square store the ready-to-wear clothing department led in gain...
...instead of in March still affects the clothing business, according to Cole, although not nearly as much as it did several years ago when everyone felt that he had to have a new suit of clothes for this great occasion. To be sure, business in Boston suffered a nine percent loss in March, and a 12 percent gain in April, but at the Coop the differences were not noticeable...
...dormitory accommodations the Freshman halls will be available, with women students being placed in Gore, Standish, and McKinlock. Men will be furnished rooms in Smith Halls. Last year the total enrolment in the School was 2,489 persons, of whom 52 percent were men and 47 percent women, with 61 percent of the students from outside being teachers and school officers...
...give the world a little time, for the world is weary. Liberal Lady Luck smiles invitingly, and old-fashioned Fate armed with a shot-gun grimly demands their intentions. There is a tide in the affairs of men. Last night when news reached New York that only thirty-two percent of the Senior class would have butter with their eggs, the bottom dropped completely out of the stock market, to be reassembled in the early morning hours by one old bull who said that it had all happened before and didn't really matter anyway...
...Peabody presented a Dry credo of 14 points. Excerpts: "We believe in the Volstead Act which limits alcoholic content to one half of one percent. No other standard would be safe for children"; "we believe the buyer is equally guilty with the seller in illicit transactions in liquor"* "we believe that the press . . . ought to give fair representation of the views of law-abiding citizens rather than continue attacks on the law" "we believe there is no authority for submitting the Constitution, in whole or in part, to a national referendum...