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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other day, is interestingly borne out by the statement just published of the average yearly carnings of the members of the Harvard Law School class of 1905. The report, covering 119 men, shows an average professional income of $18,634. Moreover, a close analysis shows that this high level is act only mathematically but practically sound as a measure of the "average" earnings of Harvard-trained lawyers in their twentieth year of practice. Although there are three men earning over $100,000 and seventeen over $25,000, these exceptionally handsome returns are not numerous enough greatly to falsify the result...
...sharp drop about 1920 in the percentage of cases in which intemperance was a factor, but very decided and fairly consistent increases since that date. There is an encouraging number of cities, however, that report decreases in 1924. For the most part, the 1924 figures fall short of the level of 1916-18, and in some cases the difference is striking . . . There is some reason to think that the period 1916-18 represents the crest of a wave of intemperance as a cause of dependency, and if this is true the figures for 1924 appear more favorable than they really...
...gained from ruling in his dream, has been pretty badly mangled on the screen. Matt Moore, able comedian, is miscast, being for one thing several years too old. The twists of character and the strange development of fantasy are lost. The film descends to the vague and chaotic level of slapstick comedy...
...technically the most human course in college, the way it is taught deserves no such high praise. Not that it is inhuman at all, for Anthropology 1 is one of those mediocre courses which are at once the curse of the University and the backbone of its moderately high level of instruction. There is a bewildering mass of miscellaneous facts to be mastered which from their very nature can not be too systematically coordinated. The course will provoke enthusiasm from those few who have a decided bent for this sort of thing and from the rest the semi-boredom with...
...lives," prayed Realtor Konkle, "I will work for the rest of my life to make money for the missionaries." The youth survived.* Last week his father announced that he will build a 5,500-room hotel which will tower 800† feet above Manhattan's street level. Ten % of the profits derived from this remarkable edifice will go to missionary work...