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Proclaiming that "groceries' time has come," several Lowell House students recently organized Harvard's only known Grocery Society whose motto is "Vivere Melius Per Condimenta"--"Better Living Through Groceries...
...townspeople gave their schoolhouse a new coat of paint inside & out; the well water was tested, and the grass was cut. On the first day of school the teacher, Mrs. Norman Melius, unlocked the doors and sorted out the textbooks. Not a pupil appeared. Every day for a month she showed up at the schoolhouse, but still no pupils came. Mrs. Melius was not surprised: it had been that way for three years...
Last week Mrs. Melius (who has no children of her own) went back to being a housewife again. The taxpayers of tiny (pop. 53) Mount Washington, Mass, paid her $120 for her month-long vigil, and considered it a bargain. Under a Massachusetts law, every incorporated town is required to offer its citizens "an opportunity" for elementary education, or bear the cost of sending the local kids elsewhere. Parents of Mount Washington's three elementary pupils boycott the local school because the one across the state line in Hillsdale, N.Y. is bigger & better...
...Olaf's choristers always sing unaccompanied. Their sense of pitch is so accurate that their director, squat, white-haired Dr. Frederick Melius Christiansen, never even peeps a pitch pipe to give them the key. And their singing has the precision and shading of a crack symphony orchestra. Every year they pack up and pile into a chartered bus for at least one big tour. For St. Olaf, these tours earn substantial sums. The grey stone, $140,000 music building that is the pride of St. Olaf s campus was paid for mostly out of the choir's profits...
Technically Mr. Melius was correct but the circumstantial evidence was against him. The I. C. C. had the word of a Baltimore & Ohio man that a New York Central vice president had telephoned him to threaten that Universal would surely shift its patronage if B. & O. made an alliance with the Keeshin truck lines. The B. & O. continued to discuss that alliance, whereupon Universal started to route over Pennsylvania...