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...touch football, the season will begin much earlier this year than last year in order to lengthen the season and allow for the increasing interest in this sport. During the fall, tournaments will be held in tennis and golf so that teams may be selected before the spring season when the inter-House competition gets under...
...Trade retained limits on daily fluctuation but removed the minimum prices established when Edward A. ("Doc") Crawford was suspended for insolvency. Banned from the pit forever were all dealings in in demnities (options on grain futures contracts, generally regarded as pure gambling). The New York Stock Exchange voted to lengthen its short sessions into the full five-hour trading day, but in mercy to frazzled brokerage house clerks, whose objection to all-night work without extra pay threatened to become a general strike, the Exchange will be closed every Saturday until after Labor...
...from Cambridge. With Harvard's usual holiday from the twenty-third of December to the second of January, Western and Southern students frequently find it futile to return home for so short a period. This winter, for instance, the addition of two more days at the beginning would also lengthen the vacation over another weekend...
...Divisional Examinations in that field. It has long been thought that too short a time is allowed for the writing of those examinations, three hours being the maximum. Considering the fact that the background of four years is supposed to be represented in that paper, the suggestion to lengthen the period of examination is certain common sense. Three hours to talk of five centuries of prose and poetry appears at first glance the method of an illiberal rather than a liberal education...
...suspicion of practical persons that it would be to the interest of the teams to lengthen baseball's World Series so as to increase the gate receipts, is unfounded. Players and managers receive their percentage of the receipts only from the first four contests. Twice in the last five years the series has been decided in four games; since 1926 American League teams (New York Yankees, Philadelphia Athletics) have won 16 out of 19 World Series games. Partly on the strength of these statistics, partly because the Athletics had a supposedly superior pitching staff, partly because the strategies conceived...