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...complicated athletic program requires not only the experience which an unchanging administration can supply, but also a considerable amount of system and organization. Too much policy and too much outside interference are admittedly bad, but to give athletic control to a continually changing group of undergraduates is the poorest solution for the problem. Mr. Tunis, in an article replete with dubious and inaccurate statements, paints an ideal which would supplement a few difficulties with many others far greater...
Most important of companies to report their 1930 results last week was General Motors Corp. with earnings of $151,098,000 against $247,317,000 in 1929. Per share earnings were $3.25, of which $3.04 came from actual operating profits. The year's result was the poorest since 1925, when $107,070,000 was earned...
...farmer was complaining to a friend that his land was the poorest in Slovakia and would not even support a partridge. Up flew a partridge. Said the friend: "There's one partridge, anyhow." "And was it not flying away?'' said the farmer...
...against $489,900,000 a year ago; imports shrank from $383,800,000 to $300,000,000. Carloadings, a prime indication of the state of trade, were down to a weekly figure of 883,000 for March against 962,000 a year ago. This average, the poorest for March since 1924, found reflection in railroad earnings. Gross railroad income for February was down 10.11% from February 1929 while the $97,448,000 net was off 22.40% and was the worst result for February since 1918. Manufacturing production has fallen off so that the March figure (Electrical World statistics, 1923?...
Anxiously awaited. First Quarter earnings statements last week began to appear in volume. Although it will be a long time before complete returns are in, and although, as often happens, the poorest statements may be the last, the following were indicative of what may be expected : Increases 1929 First* Quarter 1930 First* Quarter...