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...standard arguments against it. Out of many similar attempts in the past, only those in Milwaukee and Scranton, Pa. had effectively survived. Publishers were hostile. Newsmen, especially in New York, were too proud, too individualistic, too footloose to sign lodge cards. But that was just the kind of set-up that Colyumist Broun likes. He began talking up the idea to his friends, holding meetings in his Manhattan penthouse. Last week in Manhattan a full-blown Newspaper Guild of New York* adopted a constitution. It had the signed support of 500 working newspaper men & women in the city, was going...
Harvard's football rivalry with Dartmouth is one of the oldest and keenest we have ever had. Despite a long period of Crimson supremacy from the first game in 1882 until about 1901, when the Dartmouth contest was considered practically a set-up, and Harvard lead 28 to 8 in games the Dartmouth team has for a long time been thought one of the strongest menaces to Crimson elevens...
What have we done so far? Well we have been swaying a little to find our bearings. We have investigated the fraternity set-up in a series of articles, rapped the pyramiding of many large campus positions--upon a few good men, punctured poor sports-writing, listed many local rackets, exhaustively investigated with questionnaires and statistics the alarming off-campus movement of student roomers, examined the financial structure of the publications, gathered information and formulated a platform on Dartmouth drinking after repeal, and sponsored a vigorous scrap over the worth and meaning of Orosco's famous murals now being painted...
...this had a horrid sound, but Wall Street was disposed to be tolerant. The pyramided set-up was no secret; the public which had bought the preferred had had a chance to cash in on their bonus of common at prices that they probably never dreamed they would get. U. S. & Foreign had paid $11,000,000 in dividends on the publicly-owned preferred and was still paying. U. S. & International paid preferred dividends until this year but there was no reason to believe that eventually they would not be resumed...
Strong opposition will be encountered by the Varsity soccer team when it meets the M.I.T. outfit this afternoon at 12.30 o'clock on the Business School backfield. The Engineer outfit, which usually appears on the Harvard schedule for a set-up game preceding the Yale contest, starts this year in excellent condition. The Bulldogs edged M.I.T. last Saturday...