Word: drawings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sused, and despite the palpably incomplete character of the returns, the CRIMSON feels that the investigation has proved satisfactory. The statistical queries were not intended to duplicate the work of the admirable student council report of 1931; they were designed to foster student discussions of the system and to draw general expressions of opinion from the Tutors. The response has been spirited and should serve as a valuable source of information on the development of the system since 1931, and as an indication of the lines on which it can be improved...
...country heard last week from its President-elect, fishing in the Bahamas, was brief, light-hearted radiograms flashed from Vincent Astor's Nourmahal to Miami. Sample: "We are anchored off Andros Island and have good fishing. [New York's Justice Frederic] Kernochan fought a 15-round draw with a shark. Both escaped. All well. Having wonderful trip." A Secret Service man was recovering from sunburn. Mr. Roosevelt had lost a "fish as big as a whale." Commodore Astor was the "perfect host...
Alfred Hugenberg proved more tractable toward the Wiggin commission now in Berlin. German delegates presented an ingenious scheme whereby U. S. banks with stillstand credit in Germany will be allowed to draw 3,000 marks monthly ($714) from this credit, in the form of travelers' checks which in turn they can sell to U. S. tourists at cut rates, thus encouraging tourist traffic, helping German industry...
...round of eight at the Merion (Pa.) Cricket Club last week, four of the seven members of the British team were still in the draw. Next day, the only American left was Ruth Hall of Merion, runner-up for the title last year, winner in 1931. sister of J. Gilbert Hall, onetime 13th ranking U. S. lawn tennis player. Against Susan Noel, 20-year-old British champion who learned squash racquets from her father when she was so young she does not remember it. Miss Hall began with the fatal mistake of trying to outdrive her opponent. After losing...
...professor as either a meddler or a coward, and asks, "Why should a man ever run away from the world except through cowardice? Professors are our curse--they talk too much." For his part, he recommends in a very definite fashion that the nation "chuck its professors," and draw its economic enlightenment from more practical sources...