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...true that tonight I feel that I have not begun to climb as high as I have aspired and, as the shadows lengthen, I fear I never shall. Like most fishermen, I find the biggest fish* got away...
...worse before they are better ; these include iron and steel, high cost copper properties, automobiles and railroad equipment. Still other industries, like the oils, have been sick and are now getting through their convalescent period. The whole question is whether the present recession in business will broaden and lengthen into a depression, or prove only a slight halt in operations. When things get bluest will be the time to plan on renewed activity. But that time has not yet arrived...
...into engineering colleges. For the 60% failure he blamed the lack of adequate training of high school graduates. He suggested that the engineering school should either close its doors to all save those with bachelor's degrees in a college of arts and sciences ("Undemocratic!"), or should lengthen its course to six or seven years, to be divided into a four year training course for deficient high school graduates and a two or three year course for adequately prepared students...
Sarazen beaten. A second surprise came when Bracedale beat Sarazen by a length and a quarter in the Lynbrook Handicap. The immediate effect was to lengthen the price of Sarazen who has been the Winter-book favorite for the Kentucky Derby. The result of the race was a blow to all. Sarazen started 1-3 on, while the odds at post-time against Bracedale were 7-1. It was considered possible that St. James will now supplant Sarazen as the Kentucky Derby choice...
Coach Brown has been shifting the line-ups of the class boats so frequently that it has been impossible to determine their exact power. Thursday, the Senior class eight outstripped the Union Boat Club by five lengthen the best exhibition by a class crew this year. However, the Sophomore A crew, composed of several men formerly on the third view of Coach Stevens, offers strong opposition to a 1924 victory...