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...drop the Russian bogey...
Princeton and Yale, it is understood, attempt to set for each man a definite bogey which is a percentage rating of the level of scholarship that should be attained in consideration of the student's intellectual capacity. Princeton employs an elaborate method of figuring the bogey, based on how men of the same school as that of the student in question have done on entrance examinations, and how the same men have succeeded in college. Yale makes use of a bogey founded chiefly on scholastic aptitude tests. In this direction both colleges attempt to be more scientific than Harvard, which...
...been his efforts (TIME, Aug. 18 et seq.). At a conference in Amsterdam he accomplished the difficult task of convincing the men who control the huge East Indian sugar crop. In Brussels he drew an agreement from the beet sugar growers of Europe although all were frightened by the bogey of "Russian dumping," a bogey which made cooperation seem futile. Then he saw his plan verge on failure when the German delegation marched stubbornly back to Berlin. In Paris last month he was told that the Germans were ready to hear from him again. A compromise was soon reached...
...need for money is greater. Mr. Chadbourne will attempt to obtain a loan on Russian sugar. Said he: "I anticipate little difficulty. . . . United States banks have not lost a cent on Russian short term loans for the last eight years." To European sugarmen this slaughter of the Russian bogey represented an amazing accomplishment. When Mr. Chadbourne embarked he said: "I will return to Europe within six months, after I have had a rest. I have spent the last six months working 15 hours daily, including Sunday. . . . My Cuban friends, fortified by the cooperation of the entire sugar world, may face...
Stalkers of New York City's perennially bumptious bogey, Corruption (see p. 12). discovered last week that it had a hitherto unsuspected lair: the schoolroom. Three weeks ago Dr. Maxwell Ross, chairman of the Allied Local School Boards of Brooklyn, learned that his personal cards were being distributed at the Thomas Jefferson Democratic Club in Brooklyn. Puzzled, suspecting no connection with school affairs, he hired Max B. Krone, private detective, to investigate. Detective Krone unearthed two slick racketeering rings, piled up evidence that they boasted of political "hook-ups," promised small favors to all who would pay for them...