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...corollary: "A Junior certificate might be granted at the end of the Sophomore year and that regarded as a certificate of graduation and honorable dismissal for those who do not wish to pursue the university course further." This idea is carried still further by Professor Root of Princeton who recommends that only 50 to 75 percent of the entering class be retained as Juniors the remainder being eliminated on both competitive and comparative standards. These figures are not so startling as they might at first appear for an examination of the present enrolment at Harvard shows that the Freshman Class...
...play" Weld golf course was favored by the Committee. A committee, composed of W. J. Bingham '16, C. P. Curtis Jr. '13, William Edmunds '00, and F. W. Moore '92, were appointed with power to secure further information as to the proposition of the Weld Club, and to recommend to the Corporation the necessary appropriation of athletic funds, if such participation seemed desirable. The result of a questionnaire sent out on January 25 to 1145 members of all departments of the University, including the instruction staff, indicated that fully 1100 men would avail themselves of golf privileges, if they...
...cigaret smokers, although women at present are an important clientele; but the manufacturers feared arousing the latent U. S. hostility to tobacco (TIME, Jan. 31). Prohibition has taught them much. However, the American Tobacco Co.'s advertising agency advised boldness and got Madame Schumann Heink to testify: "I recommend Lucky Strikes because they are kind to my throat." If Madame Schumann Heink smokes cigarets and yet remains solidly respectable and virtuous at 65, why then, no woman need conceal her smoking. . . . The American Tobacco Co. makes eight other important brands of cigarets, so that if this advertising arouses prohibitive...
...years ago Congress authorized the Navy to build eight light cruisers. Action has been taken to build five of these. President Coolidge in his budget message to Congress (TIME, Dec. 13) did not recommend appropriations for the remaining three cruisers; instead, he suggested that their construction be postponed as a means of bringing the naval powers of the world to a new disarmament agreement...
...others. This seemed like stalemate. Then announced the Mediation Board, meditatively: "The employers will appoint two wise men, the trainmen two others. Then this U. S. Mediation Board will appoint two more men to represent the public, and the six will constitute a Board of Arbitration, whose decision we recommend that you follow, although that is not obligatory. You can force a strike if you are really stupid." The Board of Arbitration met the end of October. On it sat For the railroads: Robert V. Massey of the Pennsylvania and William Ayer Baldwin of the Erie. For the workers...