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...themselves, but in the demands made upon the time of students. Despite the fact that the average student is busier than ever before, partly because of compulsory physical training for Freshmen and the divisional examinations, the number of men engaged in voluntary social service has remained at about the pre-war level...
Peter, an English cleric, lives among the unrealities of pre-war England. Formal religious duties fill his working hours, and unreal religious conceptions his thoughts. There is a fiancee as unreal as all the rest. Conventional thoughts and aspirations and sentiments combine in her to make a personality that is a mere summation of unrealities. But all these things are real to Peter in "Simon Called Peter" by Robert Keable. The surface of the man leads its tranquil surface existence...
...manufactured goods. This is obviously proven by the fact that the wholesale farm products are below the prices of 1918, while the average of all commodities is about 50 per cent above the level of that period, and the prices of many of these manufactured articles are double the pre-war prices. This drop in agricultural products is due to the general collapse of business and to the unusually large crops in 1920. But this situation is not serious, as a great deal of this stock has been exported and now the surplus has been nearly liquidated, so there...
...scoffing at the college man and his conceit is now almost as frequent as it was then. After the war for not inexplicable reasons the press temporarily conceded that University training might be of some use after all. Now they are beating out the old refrain again with pre-war vigor...
From studying the European situation we conclude that there will be normal, pre-war market for several years, and for that very reason, I believe, business depression will be extended." Such was the interesting statement made by R. W. Babson, noted economist and statistician, in a recent interview for the CRIMSON...