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...large number of overdrafts mar the banking records of University students. "Easy come and easy go is the rule for most college men as far as money is concerned." "The average undergraduate has never had a checking account in his life before, and he can't keep it straight. As a rule he does not know whether his balance is $20 or 10 cents." These were a few of the comments made by tellers, and higher officials, as a result of their observations of undergraduate banking methods...
...tournament has reached the round before the semi-finals with the exception of one match, which will probably be played today. The four seeded players have come through with little difficulty. The nearest approach to an upset occurred when F. I. Carpenter '24 defeated H. N. Rawlins '27 in straight games yesterday. Rawlins, the Freshman captain, had not previously been defeated in tournament or match play...
...CRIMSON reporter yesterday. Mitchell, University baseball coach in 1916, has accepted an offer to coach the Harvard battery candidates this year. He had a notably successful season with the 1916 University nine, which lost only three contests out of 26 and defeated both Yale and Princeton in straight games. Since that time he has been a major league manager, piloting the Chicago and Boston National League teams. He is now business manager of the latter club, a position which will not interfere with his Cambridge coaching duties...
...Brother. Rex Beach wrote a magazine story about the Big Brother movement and it turned out about as nicely as could be expected. "It takes a tough guy to go straight" is the motto. The "tough guy" is assisted in his rectification by a beautiful girl and a priest. No doubt the benefit derived by the younger set in less polite communities from this type of picture is enormous. As entertainment most of it has been done before...
...understood to have spent much money on The Post, and it was common talk that he "dropped a million or two" in it. Early in 1922 he sold the paper to a syndicate of 34 men headed by Edwin T. Gay and including Harold I. Pratt, Mrs. Willard Straight, Clarence M. Woolley, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marshall Field, Charles C. Burlingham, Cleveland H. Dodge, August Heckscher, Finley J. Shepard, George W. Wichersham, Paul M. Warburg, Harold Phelps Stokes. These men in turn have now sold the paper to Mr. Curtis...