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Gourmets can roll their tongues over chocolate yeast cakes (Chocolate Yeast Co.); two tons of ham, three tons of bacon (Armour & Co., etc.); Sumoro orange juice (Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc.); popcorn (Excel Electric Co.); Life Savers (Life Savers, Inc.); cough drops (William H. Luden, Inc.); 1,500 Ibs. of kippered herring, two tons of corned shoulder, two tons of corned spare rib, two tons of pork sausage, etc., etc. And no toothaches will mar their pleasure, since every explorer has dutifully attended a dental clinic, where even the suspicion of a cavity threatened the loss of a tooth...
ARACHNE-Eden Phillpotts-Macmillan ($2.25). Slangy conversation between classic Greeks suggests Erskine; muses conversant with the Charleston recall various recent fantasies; and the wilful woman who (almost) came to woeful end has been heard of before. She would have her profession, and she did excel at it, so the gods had to interfere and deposit her in the domesticating arms of her lover, soon husband and five times father. Bromide, he had said "No woman ever made anything more beautiful than a complete and perfect baby," but Arachne swore she preferred making the complete and perfect web of brilliant silks...
...tutorial system as conducted at Harvard. The present incentive to attain Honors and Distinction is undoubtedly responsible for the increase in likely candidates for Phi Beta Kappa. Wheather it is the familiar watch chain symbol or the magic, "cum," "magna" or "summa," which attracts undergraduates to excel in such a secondary commodity as book learning is not important. The results are the same, and the urge inspired by the same ideals. At any rate Phi Beta Kappa finds itself in the rather pleasant position of having a wealth of candidates when practically every other activity in the College uses every...
...penalties exacted by the law for misdoings excel in rigor that demanded by the public of those who have committed the crime of becoming famous. Ridden through the city in an open car in the rain, surrounded by vociferous mobs whenever they dared show their faces, and finally forced to escape a throng of their well-wishers by a service elevator, the aviators now visiting Boston will have memories of a trip that was exciting if not always comfortable. Not that theirs is an exceptional case, for the past year has given the public many victims, but even an "annus...
...Taft, evolve into an eminent educator. Last year he took Taft School out of his own pocketbook, gave it to a self-perpetuating board of trustees. He continued to serve as headmaster. His boys have a golf course and a fine football field, but they are more likely to excel in Latin and things musical. They lack adequate housing. So last week began a campaign to raise $2,000,000, more than half of which will be used for new buildings. Edward Stephen Harkness, Manhattan financier, whose family has given millions to Yale, fired the opening gun of the Taft...