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On Wednesday, April 1 all essays for the $500 Percival Wood prize must be handed in. This competition is open to students in the Junior and Senior classes of 18 New England universities, including Harvard. It was established by the will of the late Governor Percival Wood Clement, of Vermont...
"I couldn't see my mother lose her home. ... I made five or six payments. . . . It's hard to see a girl like Clara with everything and no respect for anything." Secretary de Boe sometimes paid out her own funds for her employer's liquor. At frequent...
G. F. Oest '33, Omaha, Nebr.; Isadore Paisner '33, Brookline; A. W. Patterson '32, Phila., Pa.; L. F. Percival, Jr. '31, Marblehead.; G. J. Pick '32, Highland Pk., Ill.; Albert Pratt '33, Boston; M. A. Rauh '32, Cincinnati, O.; David Riesman, Jr. '31, Pittsburgh, Pa.; M. L. Robbins '32, New...
"Perhaps that will be a good thing!'' snapped wrathful Employer Ford. But squirming Employe Sir Percival hopped up in time's nick, blandished the journalists before they got away.
Steering the interview deftly into quiet channels, Sir Percival soon had Mr. Ford saying: "I think that in England you make too much of your troubles. Take unemployment. There is a great deal of it in England. But your figures are apt to give a wrong impression.