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Though they were asking for a 15% rate increase on all freight as an emergency measure to offset lost revenues and thereby avert wage cuts, defaults and receiverships, the carriers intimated they had no idea of using such wholesale authority, if granted, to an extreme. Many rates, particularly those on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Rate Upping | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

The custom of Indiana university seniors receiving their diplomas direct from the hand of the president at the Commencement exercises has been abandoned in recent years. The reason for the discontinuance of this tradition was that with the ever-increasing number of graduates each June, the practice of individual presentation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 6/16/1931 | See Source »

When a good actress finds that a picture has been stolen from her it may be a tribute to her artistry as well as proof of experience. It would be inexact to say that Lionel Barrymore steals this picture from Norma Shearer, but the role of Jan Ashe is certainly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 15, 1931 | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

Yale's House Plan, like Harvard's, like President Wilson's, aims at what every one thinks a college should be: a place where professors and students can study together, enjoy a cultured academic life. Yale's new colleges, in conjunction with recent curricular changes will permit able students to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Yale into Eleven | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

The University of Michigan is famed for its law school, for its longtime Football Coach Fielding H. ("Hurry Up") Yost and for consistently getting its intramural difficulties well aired. After a protracted wrangle with the state legislature, Dr. Clarence Cook Little, cancer expert, resigned the presidency two years ago (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Drinking | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

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