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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first to face the higher promotion requirements, suffered rather severely from them. An unusual effort was made with the Class of 1928 to help it meet the new requirements, with the result that it made as good a record as the last class which had only the lower requirements to meet. It was felt, however, that such a careful following of the individual Freshman as was then made would not be altogether the best thing for them when they passed to the Sophomore year and began to do upper-class work; and accordingly the pressure and supervision from the office...
...construction of better theatres," said Jesse D. Lasky, Vice-President of Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday after his lecture at the Business School. "Twelve years ago, when the motion picture industry was getting its start, the movie-houses were frequented by the lower class of society. The pictures were mediocre and the so-called theatres were nothing more than cabarets. The great contrast between then and now in this industry, as I see it, was instigated by an improvement in the show-houses themselves. With an increase in the quality of the theatre came...
...lower floor and the gallery were remodeled to increase exhibition space and provide better lighting and Edward W. Forbes '95 was made Director of the museum. He found it with only the beginnings of collections of anything except prints and with space which was even then inadequate. Three years later Paul J. Saches '01 was made Associate Director and it is to the scholarship and enthusiasm of these two men that the present state of the museum is chiefly due. Each has contributed generously from his own collections to the enrichment of the museum and their examples and earnestness have...
...regulate only businesses involving public utilities or morals, that theatre ticket scalping* does not come under either of these classifications, that the New York law limiting scalpers' charges to 50c in advance of the rate printed on the face of the ticket is unconstitutional. This decision reversed a lower court opinion and ended the case of Tyson & Brother, United Theatre Ticket Offices, Inc. v. New York State officials...
John D. Rockefeller Jr., philanthropist: "Moving men all last week carried furniture into the new 166-suite Thomas Garden Apartment that I have financed cheaply in lower Bronx, New York City. The goods belonged to bricklayers, electricians, policemen, streetcar men, firemen, bookkeepers, teachers, librarians and like members of the thrifty and shifted classes, for I have provided rooms at rents they can afford. Each tenant pays down $1,000 to $1,700 cash, and thereafter $64 to $100 monthly. Eventually he will own his apartment outright. All this I have made possible by financing the construction at exceedingly low interest...