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...greatest practical argument against a Harvard-Army game. The story of this is well known. It is not for anyone to dictate to Army what its own eligibility standards should be, but it would certainly make for fairer rivalry if the nation's training school for young men would conform to the ruling which practically every college employs. The CRIMSON did not attempt to speak for the players, who would have to be consulted if any action were to be taken, not did it fail to realize that no such action could come before the expiration of four years. Even...
Advertisements in cheap, pornographic ("love" and "art") magazines conform to the standard of their fiction and illustrations but often fall a step lower. Pages are packed with announcements of "red hot" photographs, vigor tablets ("Glow of Life"), bust developers, sex secrets, aphrodisiacs ("Essence of Ecstasy"), contraceptives. Plentiful also are the advertisements of so-called matrimonial bureaus which will furnish lists of lonely men & women, object matrimony. Stressed in the advertisements, prominent on the lists are Wealthy Widows. Sample advertisements...
...deciding to allow entrance credit in subjects which do not conform exactly with the College Board Requirements, the University of California adopts an excellent solution to a perennial problem. Unable to change the rigidity of the Board system, California follows other colleges in declaring its emancipation from this restrictive mechanism...
...rivets are now made in standard sizes is one of the triumphs of Herbert Clark Hoover's career. One of his great doctrines as Secretary of Commerce was that U. S. manufacturers should get together, form trade associations and eliminate industrial waste by agreeing to make their products conform to a common gauge of pattern and quality. In 1925 the bolt, nut & rivet industry showed a disheartening loss of $3,000,000. Having organized itself as Mr. Hoover suggested, it last year made $7,000,000. So well had it learned to standardize that last week, in Manhattan, Federal...
...University is constantly requiring that the student spend an increasing amount of time on his work, in order to meet the higher scholastic standards, the opportunity for extra-curricular activity will inevitably be further limited. Athletics, essentially secondary in importance, must conform to the trend and the proposal to discontinue the spring trip is moving in this direction...