Word: less
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...solid South' is going to be a lot less solid this year than ever before," asserted Professor J. H. Beale of the Law School in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter last evening...
Assuming none the less that vocational training is the sole function of most American colleges, he hastily concludes that the best preparation for an active business life is frenzied outside activity in college. Granting that some few undergraduate organizations approximate the conditions found in actual business life, it is difficult to see how the usual ad-getting sweatshirt gathering competition shapes one for the executive chair of a large corporation. It is much easier to believe the figures of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company on the value of a sound background of collegiate study for success in the business...
...other type of course, that in which more or less continuous attendance is necessary, will be discussed at another time. While on the subject, if any of the Vagabond's readers have suggestions to make concerning any course they think deserves attention, their suggestions will be welcomed...
THIS SIDE IDOLATRY, A Novel Based on the Life of Dickens-C. E. Bechhofer Roberts ("Ephesian")-Bobbs Merrill ($2.50). The faults and foibles of ''the Inimitable" show him less noble, less lovable, more humanly possible. Dickens lovers will chafe, disagree...
Building. Walter Percy Chrysler has just gained the head of the third greatest motor company by the Chrysler-Dodge merger. He is less individualistic than Mr. Ford, yet is mighty proud of his success and reputation. Last week he started selling mortgage bonds (through S. W. Strauss & Co.) on what will be the tallest building-in Manhattan or the world. It will contain 68 stories, and be 808 ft. high. It will, of course, be called the Chrysler Building and is Mr. Chrysler's personal venture...