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...recently discovered dodges by which the busy accounting machines of Lehman Hall are enabled to place worthy graduate students excessively in the red in the queer system of charges made to men enrolled in one School who take courses in a second. Under present conditions a man enrolled in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, tuition of which is $400 for four courses, is able to take half of his work in the Business School, for example, and still keep himself on the enrollment list of the Graduate School. If, then, he takes two of his courses...
Stamps Not Queer...
...stamp collector, I wish to state that the note in itself is all right, but putting it in the "Miscellany" column is where I think you are wrong. For, as all good TIMERS know, that column is made up of what one might term queer happenings, and there is nothing "queer" about that. Many a collector would swap A1 (?) stocks and bonds or real estate for good stamps, knowing their investment would be safer...
...their guests are dining on cold roast beef, boiled potatoes and stale bread, more motorists arrive, a Welsh millionaire (Charles Laughton) and his tricky mistress (Lillian Bond). The type of hospitality to be expected in an establishment of this sort reaches its peak when the butler, who is queer when sober and mad while drunk, gulps down a bottle of gin and opens the door of a room which contains a criminal lunatic who tries to cut off Melvyn Douglas's head with a carving knife. Good shot: the criminal lunatic (Brember Wells) boasting that he knows more arson...
...them invite a young Oxonian to escort them. Reggie turned out to be unattractive, unimpressionable; when he announced that he was planning to take Holy Orders the sisters wrote him off as a loss. Olivia, because she was a wallflower, met many new people but they were all queer or preoccupied, not advantageous. Kate met nobody new but managed so well that super-eligible Tony looked on her with desirous but honorable eyes. Next day the sisters, with a whole dance-full of mutually exclusive experience behind them, knew they would never be really intimate again. And Olivia, though...