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With a true American love of spectacles, the participants in the stock market have entered the realm of the stimulati, and they have gone about it in such a way that Mr. Ziegfeld's male interludes are conspicuously unassuming in comparison. The bears rush in to start the ball rolling, and the debacle begins. One hundred million dollars are rushed to the scene and big business sits back to reassure the public that all is well. The next day, a record sale of sixteen million shares is recorded, and the journalists throw up their hands and begin to put their...
...Carnegie Foundation's report on "American College Athletics", which became public yesterday, contains illuminating information for those unfamiliar with the college scene, yet for those who have followed the evolution of intercollegiate football into the realm of big business, its findings are far from being startling. The yard-stick of evaluation when applied to the sport from a national aspect measures out a sickening tale, as the fact that a "pure" rating was given only twenty-eight colleges out of a possible one hundred and twelve attests. That this was stressed at the expense of a more vivid picturization...
...inherited a sum supposed to be about $100,000,000. She was forthwith publicized as "England's richest heiress." The $100,000,000 represented figurative or literal mountains of tea, rubber, coal, oil, banks, newspapers, steamships, flour mills, jute mills or coin of His Britannic Majesty's realm derived therefrom. This polygonal fortune had come to her from her father, old Sir David Yule, who had built it up from four mills which devolved upon him from his father-in-law, Andrew Yule, who first made Indian jute world-famed. It was the War's demand...
...name Mitten is more famed than that of any other in the realm of intra-city transportation. In Philadelphia, Mitten Management Inc. operates all buses, street cars, subways, elevateds, and many a taxi. Last week President Thomas Eugene Mitten died (see p. 54). Famed in life, he became more famed dead. His buses, street cars, subways, elevateds, taxis bore the sombre legend OUR CHIEF, T. E. MITTEN, 1864-1929. Soon after, his motormen, busmen, taxi drivers learned that most of the Mitten millions (variously estimated at from $3,000,000 to $10,000,000) were to be left in trust...
...prize scholars grown affluent as a result of the intellectual nutriment they derived from her, or merely run-of-the-mill graduates with an aptitude for trade? The latter undoubtedly. And what do they look for as a sign that their university is maintaining its prestige in the academic realm? A winning football eleven...