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...difficult to select extracts from his various articles as the humor is so closely woven into the whole of each. His struggles with a typewriter--which by the way is "Ami et a mijge imean a midgt, made of alumium."--renders one helpless with mirth; while his essays on The Grasshopper, The Art of Poetry, and About Bathrooms, are inimitable. Their humor is somewhat more restrained than that of A Criminal Type, from which we quoted above, as also is that of Reading Without Tears: but perhaps for this very reason they are even more delightful and valuable. For impertinent...
...University Committee on Economic research has authorized the Crimson to print the following extract of one of their weekly letters forecasting the business prospects for the coming year...
...formed for the purpose of investigating existing business conditions, collecting statistics, and applying them to the principles of scientific business fluctuation, so enabling them to forecast business depressions. For the first time this year the committee is issuing weekly letters to those who subscribe to its service, and this extract is taken from the fourth of this series...
...second place, if the specimens are put in the library to settle a natural curiosity as to the kind of question for which to prepare, it might be well to arrange and keep them in less chaotic order. At present only a patient research worker could extract any results from the mass...
Though delayed by the bad conditions which his car encountered on the way to Cambridge, so that in one instance "it was necessary to procure two horses, each of 'one horsepower', to extract it from a bog". Mr. Henry Clay, well-known British economist, spoke on "The Present Industrial Situation in England" in the Quiet Room of the Union last evening in such a clear and non-technical manner that even the laymen in his audience needed no economic reference book as an aid to understanding. Mr. Clay was introduced by professor Zechariah Chafe LL.B. '13, who spoke...