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...million dollars. This year a deficit of more than half a million is expected. Yale's income has dropped $372,000, because of reductions in dividends and interest defaults. As if to answer frequent criticism that Yale, like many another big college, has gone on a building spree, the appeal for funds gives figures showing how income is spent. Last year 23% went for maintenance of plant and buildings; 77% for strictly educational purposes. Next year Yale plans to employ 20 less instructors than at present but the same number of professors...
Indians who drifted from their pueblos to Santa Fe last week for their September fiesta and spree found a new building in that capital. Resident Indians, who work as servants and guides, explained like peasant gossips to the newcomers that the new structure was a Laboratory of Anthropology. A rich man from the East called John Davison Rockefeller Jr. who was over at Tucson last spring had given $200,000 for the building. He was very rich, owned coal mines in Colorado...
Evidently finding the scorching weather a tonic for the batting eye, a vicious Harvard baseball nine went on a hitting spree last Saturday at Providence, and it took the best efforts of two Brown pitchers to confine the visiting nine to 15 bits and a 10 to 2 run victory. The game was a flashy spectacle from start to finish, with the free hitting of the winning Harvard batsmen being offset by the professional in fielding of the Bruin basemen, who staged four fast double plays during the tilt. Mac Hale garnered his second victory of the season over Brown...
...life, it is a case of divided to fall, united to stand. Given enough rope, enough cooperation, enough seasoned catch-words, and the hardened suicide can live through any system fabricated. Show a few gentlemen C's, worn with just a touch of the Gentleman Ranker and the Spree, and membership to the Federation of Non-Labor is free of charge...
...just after the fund raised by a group of alumni to pay their back wages had succeeded in removing the matter from the field of, as the liberal journals call it, public discussion. It appears that the Lampoon has published a cartoon representing the scrubwomen as having a riotous spree on the proceeds of the money paid them at Christmas...