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Sirs: Twice within a year or so I have read references to F. G. Bonfils, publisher of the Denver Post, in your columns. The first was occasioned by the entrance of Scripps-Howard into the Denver newspaper field. That article, while it mingled fiction and fact, was not, as a whole, unkindly. . . . The second article, published in your issue of Jan. 9 and dealing with the dedication of his great fortune to the cause of humanity, was totally lacking in these attributes. On first reading it seemed to drip venom. After a second perusal, however, I doubt if its maliciousness...
...time, when questioned by a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. One of Professor Muzzey's books was included in the large number of volumes on American history formerly kept in the Chicago public libraries and which "Big Bill" ordered withdrawn from circulation and immediately destroyed by fire. Professor Muzzey could not refer directly to the existing situation because he has a suit for libel pending against Mayor Thompson and has been forbidden by his lawyers to refer to the case for publication...
Source Sirs: Will you please refer me to your source for Mr. Thomas Campbell's suggestion on farm relief? TIME for Jan. 9 said they were "released last week." I thought I covered farm subjects in the papers pretty carefully, but evidently I missed your item completely...
Permit me to direct your attention to a situation which affects at least ninety per cent of the undergraduate body but of which few indeed give evidence of being aware. I refer to the heating and ventilating of upper Widener. With a conscientiousness altogether in excess of the results achieved, the autocratic or powers that be maintain throughout the library a temperature of seventy eight degrees Fahrenheit. This every one knows is ten degrees more than the maximum for comforable living. Why it is considered permissible in the library I cannot imagine. Yet the fact remains...
Nearly every week, I find something in the business department of TIME which I missed in the daily newspapers. Frequently, when I refer these items to Mr. Blair, I am impressed with the value of your publication, by reason of the fact that he, too, missed them in his daily reading, and he is a very careful reader...