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Fraught as the times are with the desperation of depression-cowed governments which turn in their hours of need to authorities who in prosperous times are impractical academicians, Economics 3 is from time to time deprived of its ever changing first string lecturer. But the cream of Harvard's crop of economists is always thrown into the breach. Last year, during Professor Williams' absence in Geneva as one of the American experts to the World Economic Conference, Professor Josef Schumpeter, former Minister of Austrian finance, initiated 300 wrapt listeners into the theory of deposit creation and retirement and the higher...
...copy of a magazine dated Aug. 3, 1889, which was published by the rime Publishing Company, 237 Broadway, New York. The outside front cover has a cupid with wings, peaked hat, sandals and bludgeon. The youngster holds a large scythe which is attached or else about to cut a string which leads to the earth's globe. The slogan appearing below this illustration reads, "Folly shall not go dully by U. S.-Shakespeare...
Little Engelbert Dollfuss got his fill of mountains. He served 37 months at the front (six times as much active service as the average U. S. soldier saw), won himself a string of decorations and the edelweiss embroidered collar tabs, the capercailzie plumes of a First Lieutenant.* Considering his peasant upbringing and uncertain antecedents, this promotion, in the extremely aristocratic army of Franz Josef, was a notable achievement. For months at a time Lieut. Dollfuss and his men held a tiny valley in the Dolomites against the Italian advance. Natives near Trent still call it Dollfussthal (Dollfuss Valley...
Most noteworthy in yesterday's scrimmage was the trial of Leon A. Francisco '34 at left tackle. In yesterday's tryout, however, Eddy J. Rogers '34 returned to the tackle position. Next to the problem of finding a first-string tackle is that of discovering a center to take Hallowell's place. At present, Francis J. Crane '34 is occupying the berth...
When housewives sauntered out of Piggly-Wiggly, Sanitary and Daniel Reeves grocery stores last September they tucked under their elbows, between the string beans and the meat, a copy of Family Circle. No blatant booster-sheet touting special brands or stores, Family Circle was an interesting, smartly-edited little weekly about food, cinema, radio, fashions and cosmetics which the stores thought enough of to give to their customers each week. It had a circulation of 300,000, was beginning to pull fan letters at the rate of several hundred a week. Last week Family Circle proudly announced that six more...