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...answer to the bewildered prayers of some thousand Harvard Freshmen has been granted by the Harvard CRIMSON in its first "Confidential Guide to Freshman Courses" in pamphlet form just mailed to each and every one of them. Here is no wordy exhalation from the pillared halls, but something in their own language about that formidable array of courses from which they must choose four or five by next Monday...
Wall Street had fun last week at the expense of Major Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas and his latest pamphlet The Coming American Boom (TIME, Aug. 27). For a time the brisk, dapper London stockbroker, whose record as a market forecaster has been well publicized, displaced President Roosevelt as the most-discussed man in the Street. One day when stock-market trading dwindled to the lowest level in twelve years, brokers said it was because everyone had stopped to read Major Angas' prediction. Few days later when trading swelled suddenly to more than 1,000,000 shares and prices soared...
...publication of the Confidential Guide to Courses in pamphlet form is a new departure, which, it is believed, will greatly increase its utility to the class...
Irreverent Wall Streeters make much of the fact that Major Angas' next to last pamphlet was The Coming Collapse in Gold. In this, predicting world-wide abandonment of gold as money and its decline in terms of paper-money values, he has been completely wrong to date...
...down with their slide rules to answer a question which has troubled businessmen all summer: How much will drought reduce the income of U. S. farmers? As if unable to believe what it had discovered, the Institute tucked its findings into the inside pages of an obscure food pamphlet. Hardly had it been published before the Wall Street Journal and Dun & Bradstreet hastened to confirm the Institute's opinions, and huge, conservative Standard Statistics Co. Inc. rumbled into print with facts and figures. Off the slide rules of all four popped the same startling answer: U. S. farmers will actually...