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...whole there is very little variance from last year's statistics. In the class of 1927, nine and sixth-tenths percent of the men had had their appendixes removed while this year the percentage of the first year class is nine and one-tenth percent. Nose-throat operations have increased from 59 percent in the 1929 class to 62 percent in the Freshman class. There is still an increase in typhoid inoculations, the percentage increasing from 26.5 percent last year to 30.6 percent this year...
...Cream. Manufacturers who produced 84,000,000 gallons of ice cream last year (three quarts for every person in the U. S.) reported to the Department of Commerce that more than half their customers demanded vanilla flavor. One-tenth would take chocolate, one-twelfth strawberry. The remaining customers took the various flavors put together by the dispensers. One-eighth ate brick cream, seven-eighths the more familiar bulk. Million a Day. Speyer & Co. with J. & W. Seligman & Co. bought 245,000 shares constituting control of Victor Talking Machine Co. from its President Eldridge R. Johnson a fortnight ago (TIME...
This wide and deep enthusiasm for the Diary inevitably brings to public attention Count Keyserling's new book,* which, unfortunately, is about one-tenth as readable. In it, the state of wedlock has been treated as a musical theme is treated to turn it into a symphony. Count Keyserling is the conductor. To the woodwinds of psychoanalysis, the percussives of aristocracy, the bass viols of biology, the brass of anthropology, the muted strings of art and mysticism, are assigned various parts. The players include-besides several German savants little known in the U. S. -Havelock Ellis, Rabindranath Tagore...
...maintenance cost, received only $80,000 donations through its alumni fund last year. In order to provide against future impoverishment, William Vinton King, Chairman of the Board of the Columbia Trust Co., Manhattan, and a life member of the Board of Trustees of Columbia University, has willed a tithe (one-tenth) of his estate, after death, to Columbia and last week urged, almost demanded that other alumni do the same. Raze. "The women's colleges of this university should be leveled to the ground." So voted the Oxford Union, debating society, last week, 223 to 198. While Phi Beta...
...French as a nation are immeasurably respectful to death. Even the German graves' are cared for and tended and the irresponsible utterance by an ignorant Senator unfortunately gets one-tenth the notice in its retraction that it did in its accusation - a fact upon which Caraway would be cheap enough to count...