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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ripely O. Jones '38, won first place in the acrobatic competition, the main event of the meet...
Kansas finances rest on three main props: 1) the Tax Limitation Act, restricting local taxing bodies to a maximum levy for any one purpose and to a maximum total; 2) the Budget Law, requiring local governments to publish their budgets in advance, hold public hearings; 3) the Cash Basis Law which limits every locality to pay-as-you-go spending. The last is a Landon measure. The first two were initiated by Democratic Governor Woodring. Governor Landon has stuck to the law's letter. But the enormous myth which GOPartisans have made of his budget-balancing feat...
...four inches of water in it when it reached the bridge, has prevented Captain Clark's outfit from getting a fair trail under average conditions. During the past week Whiteside has been endeavoring to remedy the washing out or light finish which appeared to be one of the main faults in the Columbia race. The crew is in fine condition, with divisional over, and with good water should be able to perform creditably in what will be an exceptional regatta...
...tuned and out of step, and with an inordinate amount of memorizing and out-moded theory, the course presents a pitiful introduction to the rest of the field. Many concentrators have found themselves insufficiently prepared for advanced work, both in theoretical knowledge and in laboratory techinque. Aside from this main blot on the Division, there is also need for a more thorough bio-chemistry course than the half year now given, and for a better presentation of qualitative analysis than Chemistry 33 now offers...
...prefer to write annual reports almost exclusively with figures. Though he may be baffled by such things as average gross tons per freight-locomotive mile or average cars per passenger-train mile, an inquisitive stockholder may learn how many hopper-bottom gondolas he owns or what percentage of main and branch lines are laid with 131-lb. rails. As conservative as the roads themselves, official statements are perennially drab in format. Last week Union Pacific broke its tradition of severe grey covers by dressing up its annual report for 1935 with a picture of a streamlined locomotive with a bright...