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Princeton last week-did nothing to tarnish. There are many elements to a musical show-music, lyrics, libretto, costumes, sets, dancers, singers, comics. It is not algebraically likely that any college production would excel in each department each year. But Fol-De-Rol bats a very satisfactory .500 or better...
...results of performances in this meet of both the Varsity and Freshmen decide the makeup of the combined Harvard. Yale team to meet Cambridge and Oxford in July, Freshmen were making special efforts to excel. Jim Lightbody qualified with a 49.1 quarter, George Downing also made the grade when he heaved the shot 45 ft. 6 1-4 in., nearly a foot better than the Varsity. Especially notable also was a new Freshman high jump record of 6 ft. 1 5-8 in. set by Harvard's Guill Aertsen...
...last of the learned professions to accept women practitioners. Traditionally it was felt that law and women had little in common. It was said: "Law is logical, women are intuitive"; "law is abstract; women deal best with the concrete"; "law requires long, sustained application; women excel in short spurts." It was in 1864 that an Iowa woman first sought admission to the bar. By 1910 there were only 558 women lawyers in the U. S. Now there are more than 4,500, of whom 1,000 are in New York City...
Under the new Air Minister, aviation's fighting arm, as well as Italian commercial aviation, took giant strides. In mass formation flights, personalty led by the Air Minister, Italy began to excel more spectacularly each year. The name of Italo Balbo made headlines everywhere, and Dictator Mussolini figured it was about time to give him a taste of what he had given the three Heroes de Bernardi, Ferrarino and de Pinedo...
...minimum if any company is to survive and make a profit. New uses for materials must be discovered, new products developed, and old products must be revamped and refurbished to meet and to whet the public taste for novelty and perfection. Back of this feverish struggle to excel, to beat the other fellow, to win customers, is the intensive search for and investigation of facts which we call research. It is a function applying to all activities of business and industry...