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...racket in which the families and friends of Harvard students play the victim in the modern art of coney catching has been disclosed through the receipt of letter to Dean Hanford from a graduate of the class of 1929. The racket, which so far as is known is restricted to New York, consists of approaching the family under the pretence of being a friend of the student or recent graduate...
...Before receipt of this letter from England, TIME had been faithfully corrected by 62 eagle-eyed U. S. geographers.-ED. Pop Corn, Cashier, Governor Sirs: Your issue of Dec. 1 carries a TIMEworthy account of the recent election-accurate and to the point. Except perversely enough your illustration was the likeness of Frank ("Chief") Haucke and not that of Governor-elect Woodring. Also Elk City, Kans. rather than Neodesha, Kans. [about ten miles away] was the Woodring birthplace. His early activities with a pop corn stand attracted the attention of the Elk City banker which resulted in young Woodring...
Conditions of the contest state that a bibliography listing all material used must accompany each thesis and the lists of League of Nation documents, pamphlets and selected books will be sent on receipt of the registration blank. As for length, 3,000 words are suggested as a minimum and 5,000 as a maximum, but these limits are not arbitrary. Other conditions will be included with the registration blank...
...fact remains that there is no reason why the Dramatic Club should not produce a revival that would be a contribution to the stage, and at the same time attract a large number of persons interested in significant plays. If they desire to accumulate a large box office receipt, they obviously can not reach such a goal by presenting plays that the talking pictures and stock companies do better every day in the week. On the other hand, if the club chooses to become a school of acting, their former prestige and affluence must necessarily be relegated to the past...
Time Out is in receipt of a small poster, about six by ten inches, red in color, with the edges and some of the sides singed off by match fire, which drifted on to his desk from the Middle West the other day. It comes from Ann Arbor, Michigan and tells of a mass meeting and dinner that will be held on November in some building on the Michigan campus. It leads off with "Tomale!--Paprika!--Tabasko!--Red Hot--Every One!" Then proceeds with, "What do you mean? I mean the stunts at the Football Stunt Dinner on Tuesday...