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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...searched high and low thru all my back numbers of TIME and could not find the article which I am certain I read. As I desire to vindicate myself and also defend the veracity of TIME, please send me the copy or a clipping which contains this statement...
Archery-golf was originated four years ago in San Francisco, not for meteorological reasons. A big game hunter, archery enthusiast, held golf in low esteem, challenged a golfing friend, each to use his favorite weapons. Last year it was introduced in less favored climes as a winter sport. It "caught on." This winter has seen the game in high favor at Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, other snowbound golf centres...
...second point--the effect of the automobile on standards of scholarship, records at Princeton would seem to prove its validity. Nevertheless the ratio of low grades to the number of automobiles in a university is governed--as in all such proportions of virtue as opposed to temptation--by the strength of character which the individual possesses. To prevent a student of high ranking from driving an automobile is to give unpleasant medicine to a healthy person. If automobiles do affect scholarship they should be forbidden to those on whom the effect is unfortunate--the others might in all justice remain...
...subject are not available; but it is safe to assume that even the laziest student enters the Yard once a day, and that even the most studious of those having rooms there are obliged to go out once a day in search of food. That the mortality is so low is surprising, especially when one considers that many motorists, particularly truck-drivers, appear to regard college students as fair game...
...Record Low. For the first time in the 81-year long history of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway its directors declared a dividend of only 1½% last week. Cause: disastrous industrial depression resulting from the British coal strike (TIME, May 10 to Nov. 29). Midnight Visitor. At a maternity hospital in London's slummy East End the lights were snapped on suddenly one midnight last week, and 48 recent mothers blinked sleepy, startled eyes. Then they huddled bed clothes around themselves, sat up and simpered at Edward of Wales. He, restless, hurried on to visit half a dozen...