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Last week the Curtis-Martin newspapers (New York Evening Post, Philadelphia Public Ledger and Inquirer) excitedly front-paged the "invention" of such a revolutionary airplane in Germany. The story, sent from Berlin by Pulitzer-Prize-winning Correspondent Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker, reported experiments by Dr. Adolf Rohrbach, head of Rohrbach Metal Airplane Construction Co., on an airplane without propeller or conventional wing. From each side of the fuselage extends an elongated paddle-wheel driven by a 120-h.p. engine. Each paddle-wheel is composed of three blades to provide lift and forward thrust. The angle of each blade shifts...
...intricacies of the company's accounting system, a man who has worked hard and has been devoted to his employer's interest. After being graduated from a public school in Jersey City, N. J., James Franklin Behan went to work .for New York Telephone Co. as a ledger clerk. Nine years later he was shifted to A. T. & T. and made an accountant. Then, after eight more years, he was made assistant comptroller. Last week he came to work in a brown suit to match the upholstery in his new office and smoked a very big cigar...
...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...