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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Please refer to your issue of Sept. 9, p. 52 in the column on Education. Mr. Crabtree (Secretary of the National Education Association) complains that chain stores and mail order houses pick up profits in villages which are taxed at the headquarters in a far away place. We wish Mr. Crabtree would explain just how this is done, as profits are taxed under the Federal Income Tax law and I supposed that the taxes went to Washington whether the owners of a business lived in the village where it is conducted or in a large city far away. Perhaps...
...Wednesday's Boston Herald, Burt Whitman, sports writer, in a column headed "Why all this hysteria?" charged Harvard undergraduates and graduates in general with an unwarranted and foolish optimism in regard to the approaching grid campaign. In fact he included in his indictment all football fans "within 50 miles of the sacred cod atop the state house." He says, "It begins to look as if Harvard might win all of its games by undergraduate and general fan edict before a single game is played. It is a hysteria of optimism which is not at all uncommon in college football circles...
Although the column will deal most often with news directly connected with Harvard's athletic world, its scope will extend over all sports. Space will also be given to the sports at Harvard which do not come in for as much publicity as football, for instance, and intramural athletics will receive their share of attention...
...courses in the College. This list contains a number of corrections which do not appear in the regular list released with the registration envelopes. There are also one or two instances in which the correction was handed in so late that it could appear only in the notice column of today's paper...
Whale Watcher Sirs: In your issue of Sept. 9, on p. 60, you say there is no record of whales having been observed in actual copulation. By an odd coincidence, the third column on that same page carries the picture of the employer of a man who does state that he has seen whales under just such conditions. On the estate of Col. Green at South Dartmouth, Mass., is moored, perpetually in a concrete basin, the whaling bark Charles W. Morgan, said to be the last of the old New Bedford whalers, her only rival for that distinction having been...