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...William Lyon Phelps, the effluent literary critic from New Haven, has recently stated in an interview in the Pennsylvanian that college men spend half their time studying, and that the time spent not so doing is one of the important reasons why men go to college. It is the professor's opinion that the required work could be completed in two years, but if this were done to the exclusion of extra-curricular and social activities most of the benefit to be derived from a college education would be lost...
When Minnie Maddern Fiske, animal-loving actress, read about the fight she was in New Haven lecturing to Yale students. Instead of telling them about modern drama she urged them to write letters of protest to New Jersey authorities. Many gallantly complied, including Professor William Lyon Phelps. Other letters came from President Jonn Grier Hibben of Princeton University; the Lord's Day Alliance, the Woman's National Sabbath Alliance, the Humane Society of New York, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals...
Elected. James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, fisticuffer, to be an honorary member of "The Pundits," Professor William Lyon Phelp's Yale literary club...
...Liberal objections, and next morning was law of the land-as U. S. exporters found out to their cost. Hokum. In the well tailored breast pocket of dignified Conservative Bennett is one bulging bit of hokum. Time and again he has accused his Liberal predecessor, ex-Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, of "pusillanimously permitting Washington to write our tariff act!" Matter of fact, under Mr. King, the Canadian tariff was an automatically sliding scale of "countervailing duties"-that is, if the U. S. duty on Canadian cold storage eggs were raised to x cents a dozen, bang would...
...Canadian election which turned out Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and turned in Conservative Richard Bedford Bennett (TIME, Aug. 11) increased the difficulties of Minister MacNider. Mr. King had been inclined toward a friendly co-operation with the U.S. Prime Minister Bennett's election had been won on an implicitly anti-U. S. platform. MacNider problems...