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...five straight sittings the House of Commons had irritably talked about the nation's manpower, given no thought to women. Finally a woman had heard enough about men. The member for North Battle-ford, Saskatchewan, Mrs. Dorise Neilsen, had a point and a question...
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Last week Professor Alfred Marius Neilsen of New York University gave a lecture in a course on Modern Business. Students laughed long & loud at his jokes. They stayed half an hour after class to ask questions. Scores of them edged up to shake his hand, beg for more...
Professor Neilsen is able and popular but his students at N. Y. U. never behave like that. Last week's pupils were the 210 most intelligent inmates of New York's Sing Sing prison. Professor Neilsen's lecture on Business and the Weather was second in a series of 13 to be volunteered by the faculty of N. Y. U.'s School of Commerce, Accounts & Finance. First lecture last fortnight was on Money. Future subjects: Real Estate Outlook; Plans for Relief of Depression; How to Evaluate Industrial Securities; Corporation Financing...
Sing Sing's lecture room, a long, bare hall set off by iron wickets from its library, was packed last week when fat, jolly Professor Neilsen walked in without a guard. He found his listeners most interested in aviation and weather forecasting. He had to translate "cyclonic and anticyclonic disturbances" into "fair and foul weather,' but went away with the opinion that 20 or 30 of his listeners had "very high college intelligence." Said he: "There was no difference in talking to them and in talking to a group of college freshmen...