Word: presentable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...While I prize the spiritual values involved in the suggestion, I have been conscious that in a practical and cynical world, an activity which is reflected in a surplus on the balance sheet commands more present respect than those for which credit is to be given in the hereafter...
...logical thing is to reduce rents. This could be most easily done by the University's building of a housing settlement for instructors on the vacant land across the river next to the Business School. At present this land is lying idle; at the same time the University is complaining that it cannot get a large enough return on its investments. If it were to build such a project and to charge rents low enough to minimize the cost to the instructor of educating his children, even were the land not to be tax-free, the University still would...
...equipment, the workshop has received a generous gift of a complete recording set from the Worldwide Broadcasting Company, including a microphone and a "play back" offered as a loan for the present year. When the Workshop is more firmly established it expects to expand on this finally aiming at a completely fitted out broadcasting room...
Notes between the notes: This week's collection of facts and rumors assumes such proportions that we have to stack it up at the head of things. No. 1 is that the Goodman brother act has ceased. Since the formation of the present band, brother Harry has been playing bass and brother Irving has been doing trumpet work on and off--mostly off. Now definite word arrives that Harry is leaving to devote full time to his Pick-A-Rib joint on 52nd Street in New York, while brother Irving is just leaving. This is not to be considered...
...courses in which there are the most Freshmen this year are, I believe, English I and History I; both are survey courses requiring a huge knowledge of dates, names, and the every-present "trends." There is a large group of students who take both of these courses, probably over a hundred, maybe considerably more than that...