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...financial condition than nearly any other graduating class in the history of the University was revealed yesterday by Hamilton Young '33, permanent class treasurer. It was stated that the Class Day had brought in a total of $1,030.38, of which $62.50 went for sundry expenses, leaving a net profit of $967.88. This money will go towards defraying the expenses of future class meetings, secretary's reports, and other routine matters...
...recognize the value of intercollegiate athletic contests. We believe, however, that these contests ought not to be conducted as public spectacles for profit. We should look forward with pleasure to such a reorganization of athletics as would confine attendance to members of the universities and their alumni...
Columbia University had its chance yesterday to show conclusively that intercollegiate football here is not a public spectacle for profit. It had its chance to stand out above any institution in the United States as pre-eminently a university devoted to the advancement of learning and research. By permitting the football team to strike out for Pasadena it has repudiated its own standards...
...limiting tutorial work to a select group, it is clear that many now carrying such work do not get benefits from it commensurate with its cost. Some are intellectually unable to profit by the work. Others have not the will to enter into its spirit and purposes. All these men consistently neglect the tutorial work, which is being furnished at such expense. One department estimates that it costs $450 to carry a man through three years of tutorial; yet it is perfectly certain that in many of these instances the student would have derived more benefit from three full courses...
...commercial enterprise, the King Ranch is big and profitable. Every year it sells some $900,000 worth of cattle. De ducting operating expenses of $300,000, freight bills and grazing charges of $200,000, and taxes of $100,000, this leaves an operating profit of $300,000. But the tale is by no means told merely in terms of cattle. There is oil in Texas, and a lot of it. And it seems as certain as anything can be in prospecting business that somewhere beneath the ranch's 1,250,000 acres lies oil. For years one company...