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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Readers of metropolitan newspapers last week observed a new and particularly acrimonious development in the current advertising disagreement between tobacco & sugar, cigarets & candies, Lucky Strikes & Sweets. Begun last winter, when American Tobacco Co. initiated its famed "Reach for a Lucky Instead of a Sweet" series, the publicity war has already produced an astonishing number of alarms and excursions. Indignant outbursts have proceeded from Candy Weekly and other sugar centres. Competing cigarets have rebuked the Lucky campaign.* Advertising itself has engaged in an intermural struggle over "tainted" v. "honest" testimonials. The Better Business Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission have been...
...announcement of changes in the annual New York Times Current Events Contest which is in another column in this morning's CRIMSON shows that there is a sincere effort on the part of those in charge of it to make it a really significant affair. Although the changes are of minor importance and do not basically alter the nature of the competition, they do clearly indicate that the New York Times is taking more than a purely commercial interest in the enterprise...
...either government or history there often appears to be a lack of instruction in contemporary questions. Such a condition is inevitable in an institution such as Harvard which limits its teaching to fields in which the material is fact and not fancy. Past experience has shown that with current events all the pertinent facts are sifted out only through the mills of time...
Among the new plans recently announced by the Academic Council in charge of the annual Current Events Contest are proposals to change the type of essay required, to lengthen the period of time covered by the facts contest, to change the date of the test so as not to interfere with Mid-year or hour examinations, and to bar winners of local contests from competing again until a year has elapsed after their winning...
...being carried out by the H. A. A. Every one who wants to play football, plays football. Anyone who wants to row, rows; and so on throughout the whole gamut of organized athletics, there is opportunity and equipment for all, The one exception is the new gymnasium. Throughout the current year there has been talk of the difficulty of raising sufficient funds for its completion, and at present the plan is to leave the construction of the top story until the three hundred and seventy odd thousand dollars necessary may be obtained...