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...Harvard Athletic Association has included a new feature which will be a surprise to those who have approved its policy of "athletics for all." Last year a member of the University was permitted to utilize, free of charge, all the departments of the new gymnasium except the swimming pool; according to the new ruling, men must secure admittance to the building by the presentation of either a participation ticket, a special five dollar "Gymnasium ticket," or by the expenditure of a quarter...
With the resignation of Sayles, it is expected that Robert Pool, formerly captain of the St. John's College lacrosse team, will take over the head coaching berth. Pool, who came to Harvard last year, introduced here the St. John's system of play, which gave that college the national and intercollegiate titles under Pool's captaincy...
...company. The minority group claimed that capital had been impaired by $13,000,000, that $8,000,000 was lost when the directors ordered the company to buy 214,000 shares of its own stock at allegedly excessive prices. Some of the stock was purchased from a pool operated by several of the directors. Since then each director except the late King Camp Gillette has returned his profits to the company. With best Boston legal talent engaged in the fray, the suit dragged on for two years. Last month the court approved a settlement by which the directors agreed...
...value. Its supporters point out that it will provide commodity financing in regions where ordinary banking facilities have all but disappeared, and where banks are unable or reluctant to extend further credit. Scoffers doubt the reality of a dearth of bank credit for sound borrowers, point out the huge pool of R. F. C. funds and the failure of eligible borrowers to step up for direct loans from the Federal Reserve in large numbers...
There are few critics of another co-operative banking enterprise, American Securities Investing Corp. ("the bond pool"), formed by J. P. Morgan & Co. and other banks to purchase sound but depreciated bonds for profit (TIME. June 13). Its formation marked the turn in the bondmarket. Officered by Morgan Partners Thomas William Lament and George Whitney as president and board chairman, A. S. I. C. has called for only $10,000,000 of its subscribed $100,000,000. Even on that sum Wall Street thinks it must have rolled up a fat profit. A boiling bond- market last week brought...