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Were it not for two doubtful factors, it would be safe to predict a victory of a few thousand votes for Mr. Murphy, the Good Government Association Candidate for mayor. The women's vote and the campaign of Mr. Baxter, who is posing as a Republican make the outcome of the election uncertain. Otherwise the circumstances are about as they were in 1917, when Mayor Peters was chosen for the same office...
...will travel next month. The problem is particularly acute among Harvard undergraduates because of a certain date that the large majority of them have made for the fifth of November. The strike is to start, if it ever does, on the first of the month; the unions predict victory by the tenth; the railroads are confident that the men will be back at work within a week. Neither alternative, unfortunately, would help matters much for those of us who are planning to be in Princeton two weeks from Saturday. Such being the case, we take leave to suggest that every...
...doing so. And after all, he suggests nothing to mend the situation he seems to deplore; the play starts nowhere and ends there. No, the man is an enigma, and must be enjoyed as such. Some day someone will write a volume about him, but we predict brain fever for the author...
...result of today's contest will be of especial interest to those who wish to predict the comparative strength of the Crimson and Blue nines, for the latter, although defeated twice earlier in the season, batted its way to a 7-3 victory on June 1. The two games next week for the University, against Fordham and Tufts, are the last before the Yale series...
...business charts by the height of the "peak" reached by the prosperity and depression lines either above or below the "X Y" line of normality. But by this system, although "peaks" above and below the line succeeded each other, they were not regular, and it was impossible to predict the height of one peak from those that preceded it. While working in a Boston business Mr. Babson discovered that prosperity and depression should be measured by the area above and below the "X Y" line and that equal areas of prosperity and depression followed one another...