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...Christian College under a stipend from the Silk Association of America, a greater volume of disease-free eggs of the silk worm have been distributed to the local farmers, and an entirely new method of reeling the skeins has been adopted, so that within the last two years 80 percent of the silk production of this province has been revolutionized to the great satisfaction of the American mills, and to the profit of the Cantonese producers...
...management of the CRIMSON evidently believes in a 50-50 proposition, fifty percent News and fifty percent Ads, all the way from Jimmie's and Max Keezer to Rogers Peet in New York City and the General Electric in Schenectady. The last named usurps more than a quarter of a page. Page one of Monday's issue is all news but only two columns out of five on page two, one column on page three, two columns on page four. Final score, 10 columns each. This policy may be profitable business, but is it serving the best interests...
...Reverend Mr. Paine points out, the percentage of advertising in this issue was exactly fifty percent. This is absolutely necessary to make expenses...
...Wednesday, March 17, 1920, the Student Council, worried over the lack of interest shown in the elections of the three lower classes, proposed two amendments to the constitutions of these classes, designed to meet the situation. The amendments provided that 60 percent of a class should vote before an election could be valid, and prescribed ballotting for more than one day if the quote was not reached within the customary time. To quote from the CRIMSON of that date: "In the past two or three years too few members of each class have shown sufficient interest in class affairs...
Obviously, the requirement for a percentage of voters fails. One of two things must be done; either abolish the 60 percent rule, or make class offices and the candidates for them so important that all of the class will want to vote. The second step is impossible (and dangerous were it possible). In a class of 870 men it is not conceivable that all will know the nominees, or that 60 percent will know them and want to vote in the election...