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Another possibility is that the strenuous efforts made during the last few years to divert some of the flood at its source have had a tangible result. In contrast to the lean days of the past century when needy universities beat the publicity drums far and wide to attract customers to their displays of educational wares, the present attitude is distinctly diminuendo. College is a waste of time for many students; for a purely business career it has few practical uses; those who come for social reasons are an unmitigated evil. Such statements have become familiar to the reading public...
...Michigan's millionaire Senator, the U. S. Treasury last week sent a check for $989,833. The Senator accepted it, though noting formally that there was a "slight miscalculation" of $20,000 or more for interest. The money was a tax refund which Senator Couzens won as the result of a fight started by the Internal Revenue Bureau three years ago to increase the Couzens profit-tax on Ford Motors stock sold by him in 1919 (TIME, January...
...blood culture was taken and a positive result obtained. The therapy directed against the [King's] infection has taken the form of chemical antidotes and attempts to raise the immunity" by injections into the blood stream...
...Ships, immigrants, animals (especially rats) may bring the pests into the U. S. Dr. Cumming's small brigade of doctors, dentists, sanitarians, pharmacists, nurses and specialists inspected 21,631 ships, more than 2,000,000 passengers, more than 2,000,000 seamen at domestic, insular and foreign ports. Result: only seven cases of smallpox, one of leprosy and two of typhus reached U. S. quarantine...
Unperturbed, editors of College Humor could still point to their survey which covered seven fraternities in colleges from Yale to Wisconsin, from Syracuse to the University of Virginia, where at Kappa Sigma more than 95% of the fraternities were readers of College Humor. The result of this survey showed that out of 276 collegians, 242 read College Humor regularly, frequently or occasionally...