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...student concentrating in English who intends to continue in the graduate field English 3a is an indispensable course provided, however, he follows it in the last half-year with English 3b, Mr. Kittredge's course in Beowulf. To conclude one's study of Old English with 3a is to parallel the almost proverbial observation about ending one's classical career with Caesar. It is an elementary course conducted at breakneck speed to enable the student to do considerable reading in the chronicles, leechdoms, and the amusing lives of the saints. Then there are occasional bright spots in the form...
...Last year Gannett Co. earned net $964,746. For the first half of 1931 net earnings were $498,455 as compared with $578,688 for the same period last year. But the 1931 half-year earnings were eleven times the dividend requirement of the preferred stock then outstanding. With the sale of $1,000,000 additional preferred stock to the public, it is estimated that earnings for all of 1931 will be about five times the dividend requirement...
...smattering of Middle English grammar is taught the first half-year, when the Canterbury Tales are read with Professor F. N. Robinson, whose edition of Chaucer's works is being prepared by Houghton-Mifflin. This year Professor Lowes returns to the second half of the course after an absence from it of two years. While abroad he lectured on "the morning star of English poetry," and with his gift for classroom brilliance, so long known to members of English 72, he should make the reading of the "Troilus and Criseyde" thoroughly enjoyable. The minor poems also will come...
...Surprisingly good," said many a banker last week after inspecting the reports which told of U. S. Industry's struggle to eke profits out of Depression. Although the first half-year was marked by further profit shrinkage, the general tone of the reports indicated that most companies have the situation in hand, are busy effecting economies which will make profits bigger when business revives...
...Chevrolet's sales from 314,000 cars in 1924 to 1,001,000 in 1927. Although during the June quarter GM sold 2.5% less cars than in the corresponding 1930 period, the net income of $55,122,000 was $1,736,000 higher than in 1930. For the half-year GM earned $84,122,000 against $98,355,000, or per-share earnings of $1.83 against a $1.50 dividend requirement. Although the second half is the harder one for motor companies, GM enters the final stretch with working capital of $328,000,000 against $290,000,000 a year...