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...student strike which meant business and speedily accomplished it was the one at W. & J. during five days of March 1931. Calling Dr. Baker "autocratic" and "domineering," the students protested his strict rules for dress (such as forbidding corduroy trousers), his delay in building a new stadium, his dismissal of three professors, his regulations by which it seemed that athletes were made to work harder than plain students. A trustees' committee investigated the charges. Before it could report, Dr. Baker resigned his job (TIME, May 25, 1931). Ill health (a prostate operation in 1930) was partly responsible...
Noted among the exhibitors was the comparative absence of corduroy pants and gypsy costumes. Most of the artists wore business suits, resembled salesmen or master plumbers, were willing & able to haggle over prices. Artist Porter sold his own pictures for $125, paid his back rent. Most of the pictures had their prices conspicuously tagged...
Thus a pair of skis came to be associated with the popular idea of the "Dartmouth type" who was supposed to be traditionally dressed in corduroy trousers and a dirty sweat-shirt. But until recently those skis were more or less of a myth. Strange as it may seem to those brought up on the Dartmouth outdoor tradition, hundreds of men graduated from the college without knowing a telemark from a gelandesprung. Skiing was left to a comparatively small group of outdoor enthusiasts of the dyed-in-the-wool sort...
...quasi-public but predominantly a rich man's college. Its students (3,938 enrolled this year) have since 1921 been obliged to pay a stiff tuition fee: from $85 to $130 per quarter, depending upon the school in which they are enrolled. Though it is their custom to affect corduroy trousers, lumberjack shirts and other unassuming gear, more than half own automobiles. Some fly their own planes: Stanford's airport, operated by the Daniel Guggenheim Aeronautic Laboratory, is one of the few college-owned fields in the U. S. and it is taxed to its capacity on big-game days...
Young Sinners (Fox). Thomas Meighan quit the film business in 1929, spent a year travelling around the world, playing golf, meeting people. He found leisure boring and the Fox company thought this play, which it had on file, would give him just what he wanted to do. He wears corduroy breeches, a mackinaw, and a woodsman's boots and cap. He hums "The Rr-hiver Shannon" and when, with his broad brogue, he asks "What's the matter with Al Smith?" the audiences in Democrat towns start clapping. The picture is a comedy which critics passed off with...