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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although whatever fame he has attained is due to the modern demand for tabulated materialism, Roger W. Babson statistical expert, does not hesitate to condemn the increasing prostitution of school and church by the mechanics of commercial success. "The educational institutions of the country have gone materially mad and our churches are equally guilty," is the dictum of the mathematical prophet. And by educational institutions he means both the elementary schools and the universities. "Our colleges are diploma factories for department stores, giving away anything wanted, irrespective of whether it makes for happiness or discontent." The old problem of serving...
...Other Democratic Senatorial gains came in Arizona, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Oklahoma. In these States, Democrats recovered seats, once theirs, which had gone astray in the Harding landslide...
...realize that the state inheritance tax will cut a large slice out of their estate, then they may well be moved to trim down their worldly goods with deeds of philanthropy. In Wisconsin they heretofore had to time their charity six years before they died. But those days have gone: last week the Supreme Court reversed the Wisconsin courts' opinions which had held valid a state inheritance tax on gifts made within six years before the death of the donor. Such gifts were formerly considered as having been made in "contemplation of death." And the question is: Where does...
Parisian Ire. The semi-official Parisian journals fulminated last week against Signer Mussolini for having, in their opinion, deliberately caused his agents to egg on a plot which might well have embroiled France and Spain if it had gone much further...
...intercollegiate "hate," the shaken soul finds comfort in that always calm old friend, the dictionary. "Lampoon" comes from "lampoons," let us drink. Liquor in Cambridge seems to have degenerated. Lampy's ancient humor has become mere billingsgate. Hollis Holworthy, that sometime mirror of correctness and savoir faire, has gone "mucker." To bedaub guests with insult was worthy of that curious taste. When one remembers such urbane Lampooners as the distinguished lawyer and sometime Ambassador who wrote "Rollo's Journey to Cambridge," one is surprised by the difference of the modern tone. Such is the improving effect of intercollegiate sport upon...