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...land, Professor Henderson spoke to the Chicago meeting in much the same vein. Vast building programs, said he, result in underpaid professors. At one university, "by 1945 I suppose it will be necessary to stop paying professors' salaries altogether, so that the wages of the president, the janitors, window washers and scrubbers can be met." Professor Henderson's figures as to the proportion of university income paid to professors; at Johns Hopkins, 65 per cent; University of Chicago, 52 per cent; Princeton, 42 per cent ("pretty fair"); at Yale 40 per cent ten years ago, 34 per cent last year...
...duty on green peas (3? to 3.9? per lb.) and McKay sewed shoes (20% to 30%). He downed the duty on egg plant (3? to 1½? per lb.), green peppers (3? to 2½? per lb.), crude feldspar ($1 to 50? per ton), turned shoes (20% to 10%), window glass (25%). He left unchanged the tariff on (among other things), lumber, cement, pens, Spanish moss, pineapples, snap beans, cucumbers, okra, fresh tomatoes and lima beans...
...thank a boy who entered Yale at the age of fourteen in the year 1803. James Fennimore Cooper is particularly remembered as the man who conceived "Leatherstocking Tales". Little boys run wildly whooping about the backyard waving wooden tomahawks and loudly protesting to an imperious voice from the kitchen window, "But mama, we're only burning him at the stake like Indians," because of Mr. Cooper. He did much else besides; wrote several excellent sea stories, a naval history of the United States, and the "Wept of Wish ten Wish" which appears to be a bit whimsy...
...greet his wife next day when she returned from the hospital with their new baby. He hurried through the decompression chambers, found himself in normal air pressure too soon. At 3 a. m. he woke up choking, writhing with "the bends." Gasping for air, he staggered to a window, threw himself against the pane, fell to the sidewalk three stories below. His wife & baby remained in one hospital and Cheerful Tom Nestor was taken to another with a broken hip, several broken ribs, to recover from his attack of "the bends...
...became Prime Minister, was even made Chancellor of Oxford. He could do no wrong. Once out shooting (being a General, not a sniper) "he shot a dog, then a keeper, and finally an aged cottager who had been rash enough to do her washing near an open window." When the victim cried to her mistress that she was wounded: "My good woman," she replied, "this ought to be the proudest moment of your life. You have had the distinction of being shot by the great Duke of Wellington...