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Yale men and all colleges may feel a certain satisfaction in the figures Princeton has published. But they must not attach too much importance to them by failing to balance the numbers of huge incomes against the meager which make an $18,000 average. Nor must they fail to consider the conditions within the homes and the standards of living which develop under our systems of education. Unquestionably Princeton has done as much for her sons in these respects. perhaps more. Nevertheless a consideration for the vagaries such an investigation entails will serve to illuminate its limitations. --Yale Daily News...
...meager merger announcement gave no details-not even the new corporate name or directorate. No information has been forthcoming about the reasons for the merger. But the implications are obvious; McCann gains many valuable accounts including Congoleum-Nairn, Bon Ami, Valspar, Dictaphone, Agfa-Ansco, Dill Tobacco; and Erickson, which had these accounts among others, gains service facilities of which it has long felt the need. Erickson had only one office (in Manhattan), while McCann has seven in the U. S., three in Europe, four affiliated in Canada. McCann Co., headed by Founder Harrison King McCann, is the larger...
...Puleston deserves more than his meager fame as the expert who exposed Alfred Aloysius ("Trader") Horn. Indignation at the gross ignorance of Congo Africa which he detected in the "Horn-books" caused Dr. Puleston (a prosperous Miami, Florida physician of 20 years residence) to exclaim to friends, "I can't believe this man was ever in the Congo...
...imagination from a complex. But even an actual inferiority can be swept away in the glamor of a football triumph. It should be unnecessary to point out that the benefits were conferred upon many who never made Coach Roper's squad. When Wittmer gets loose the most meager freshman in the cheering section is also free and hellbent for glory. "Hold em!" shout the undergraduates in the stands, and as they cry out they brace their legs against the concrete and all their muscles are ridged and tense...
...Something must be done to check the ever increasing indecency of women's dress," wrote Prefect Lops, and went on to declare that, although both Pope Pius XI and Queen Helena of Italy have condemned short skirts and bare arms, results have been meager if not lacking. "However, who can doubt," concluded fulsome Prefect Lops, "that an order from our beloved Duce would be obeyed UNHESITATINGLY by every woman in Italy...