Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been pointed out before in these columns that only the privilege of print separates the college editor from his non-journalistic contemporary. But if the oneness of the undergraduate mind is admitted, where is its title to an opinion? It is a common error to suppose that association with a set of circumstances brings the right to judge fitness or unfitness. But nowhere is this belief less true than in an undergraduate body...
Rehearsals are being held in the Gore Hall common room with W. N. Rice directing the Instrumental Clubs and R. P. Ballard '24, coach of the Vocal Club. Leaders of the three divisions are yet to be picked from among the members of the respective units...
...Jack"-the present "J. Pierpont Morgan" (as he signs himself with nice filial deference). When introduced as "Mr. Morgan" at a recent smoker of his Harvard class of '89, he promptly cried: "Oh Hell, call me Jack!" Of course only his closest intimates and partners ever do. In common converse with the public a partner of the House of Morgan avoids mentioning his colleagues by any name or nickname. "One of our partners in Philadelphia" is supposed to be a designation so august that it would be fiscal sacrilege to ask "Which...
Utilities Power & Light Corp. serves millions of consumers in 20 states, operates power, gas and electric railway companies. It controls the potent St. Louis Gas and Coke Corp. What it did last week was to purchase the entire common stock of seven British power companies which serve more than 1,000,000 Britishers in 95 English and Scotch communities. Shrewd, diplomatic, the U. S. operators secured the Earl of Birkenhead as the head of their new British interests. Since the Earl of Birkenhead was recently (1919-22) Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and Secretary of State for India...
Entertainment. Cheers for the cinema, tears for the legitimate theatres were indicated in reports from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corp., Paramount-Famous Players-Lasky Corp., and Shubert theatres. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (common stock owned by Loew's Inc.) earned a net of almost $5,400,000 or $31.21 a share against a net of about $3,000,000 or $16.68 a share in 1927. Paramount reported a record net of $8,700,000, an increase of $650,000 over 1927. The Shubert report showed a $470,822 profit for six months ending Dec. 31, 1928, as compared...