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...proper tools on hand the time expended could hardly have been over thirty minutes); Paint stock $.24 (granted); Paint labor $1.20 (allowing for plenty of leafing time between coats!); and Trucking $.50 (I could have perfectly well taken the chair to the shop myself; no one warned me beforehand that there would be any charge for the two minute trip from my House); Total $5.68. The University Purchasing Department quotes these chairs, sold singly to professors only with a special dispensation from the President, at $12.00 each now. Bought in quantity from the manufacturer they must cost considerably less than...
...other cities are attacking the "lay revolt'' with fixed fees for all services. The doctor need not decide whether to charge his patient nothing to $25 for an office visit, nothing to $10,000 for an operation. When a patient gets into a "fixed fee" hospital he knows beforehand that he will pay about what Manhattan's Sydenham Hospital last week announced it would charge...
Ballots will be sent through the mail to all members of the class, and the complete polling list of all the nominees will be printed in the CRIMSON beforehand. The following men have been nominated...
...reason, as seen by Editor Grey: "Bert Hinkler has a rooted prejudice against telling anybody that he is going to do anything before he does it. And that is not the way to become famous. . . . If you go and do a thing without telling the newspapers all about it beforehand, then, just out of spite, you get about four lines to say that it's been done...
...every way Zoraima disappointed. The setting among the Incas of 16th Century Peru was new for opera but the story was just another version of the one where the soprano saves the tenor by promising herself to the baritone, then cheats by committing suicide and boasting about it beforehand. The soprano in this case was Rosa Ponselle who sang superbly but looked funny in a Pocahontas get-up luring the Spanish tyrant (Baritone Mario Basiola). The tenor was Brooklyn-born Frederick Jagel who increased his stature but not his dignity by wearing an enormous headpiece ludicrously like the Mad Hatter...