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...please the days, and obtainable in order to satisfy the wets. If it is admitted that the vast majority of college men are dissatisfied with the present situation and that at least a good majority drink, according to their own confession, there will be cries against washing dirty linen in public, In the final, honest analysis, however, there seems to be no possible way to avoid the conclusion that prohibition in its present form is a dismal failure, and that serious effort should be made to do away with the heritage of hypocrisy left the undergraduate by his parents...
Resigned. James Milliken Speers. 66, board chairman of James McCutcheon & Co., Manhattan linen merchants; from the presidency of that company; on the 50th anniversary of his arriving from Ireland and joining the firm. To succeed him was appointed William Charles McCutcheon...
...Kodak Company took over the manufacture of the machines and at the present day the silhouetteograph is used in many colleges and schools throughout the country. The equipment used in the taking and developing of the silhouettes consists of a camera, sensitized bromide paper, developer, fixing-bath, and a linen frame. The expense of operating the silhouetteograph, not including the cost of lighting, amounts to about a half a cent for an exposure...
...this little picture on linen under consideration we observe no intentional refinements; it is direct, simple, and spontaneous, full of real feeling, direct inspiration and a mastery of execution which seeks no effects. Everything is lightly indicated. The figure of Christ seems demoralized: in this instance the artist indulges in too spiritual a conception to produce plastically sound forms...
...present Pullman arrangement with the railroads is extremely simple-Pullman Co. pays to the roads one-third of the Pullman fare. Size of the company is well illustrated by the amount of its laundering operations. Every day one million pieces of linen are washed, either in the company's own laundries or in other laundries that work for Pullman Co. on a contract basis. The company keeps on hand a supply of four million towels. About two million pieces of linen wear out or disappear each year; the annual new linen bill is in the neighborhood...