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There are no exact figures on the number of hard of hearing people in the U. S. but this does not deter many people from quoting any figures that seem to suit their fancies. I have seen figures ranging all the way from 200,000 to your 20,000,000 which seems a new high. My own estimate would be somewhat less than a tenth of your figure. The American Society for the Hard of Hearing is certainly doing good work but nothing is gained by making out their job to be astronomical in extent...
...There is not an economy for peacetime and an economy for wartime. There is only a war economy, because historically, considering the number of years of war, it has been demonstrated that a state of armed warfare is a normal state of the people, at least of those living on the European Continent, because even in years of so-called peace other types of war are waged, which in their turn prepare our armed warfare...
During the half intermission, the band will give a rendition of a Yale medley, arranged by Leroy Anderson '29. For its last number, it has decided to form a shield with VERITAS in the center and march off the field...
...Number three is another sandbagger, He was a hot prospect for center this fall until he brooks his arm, and was outclassed by his competitors while it was healing. His name is Low Harder, and the last few days he has been going out for practice although he hasn't prayer of getting into the game tomorrow...
...Number four doesn't play football For two years he's been a third-string fullback on the soccer team. In the fall he worries with the best of them about getting his weight down, and his wind up to par. Last week the lineup was revamped, and he found himself starting against Brown on Saturday. But his ankle was creamed in the first quarter. His name is John Davidge, and this afternoon he will watch Yale and Harvard play soccer from the bleachers...