Word: ledger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gunning. There is no campus joshing, no topical humor takes place in the inquisition scene (with scandalous New York only 50 mi. away) ; even the old trick of stealing jokes from the Tiger at the last minute has not been resorted to. On the credit side of the ledger, sure to please not only cousins, sisters and aunts but impartial spectators as well, is the performance of the valet. Jose V. Ferrer, Class of 1933. When this jolly young man puts on a woolly yellow wig in Act II he is the image of Harpo Marx...
...athletics. Obviously to conduct intercollegiate and intramural athletics on such a scale as I have outlined costs money, and a great deal of money. Total figures loom large, and those not familiar with the number competing may well wonder if the $900,000 on the expense side of our ledger can be wisely expended on athletics. Although money paid out by the Athletic Association reaches this large total of $900,000, several major items in this sum cannot be regarded as expenses. Many items of outgo are offset by much larger items on the side of income, and without such...
...this unsavory practice it is necessary to set a flat rate for courses in the various Schools, to charge all students the same amount. Otherwise, although the Schools themselves do not suffer, courses may be costing students several prices. These may redden the ledger, while from above the doors of Lehman Hall gleams the motto...
...Crimson yearlings made a desperate effort to stage a comeback in the final quarter, gathering two more touchdowns, and narrowly missing other tallies, but the lead piled up by the Blue freshmen in the first half kept the Elis on the winning side of the ledger...
...there is a good scenario somewhere in the Five-Year Plan and they are trying hard to find it. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has spent $200,000 trying to do so without success; whatever Warner Brothers spent on this picture can safely be listed on the wrong side of the ledger also. This is the fault, not of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. who acts in the picture and helped Niven Busch Jr. write an intelligent adaptation from Mary McCall's novel, but of a weakness in the story itself. Trying to show how a young officer of the Tsar...