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Those in the Yard who failed to pass the recent tests should not fall into the slough of despond, for the statistics indicate that most of those who fall by the wayside in November eventually get back into good standing, while the real mortality rate begins to show in February. Meanwhile it is not too much to ask that the University take heed to the age long plea for an effective adviser system in order to shift the onus of talking to every erring Freshman from the shoulders of the deans...
Meantime, in its ponderous ascent from Depression's slough, U. S. Steel Corp. reported profits of $16,233,000 for the first six months of 1936, about three-fourths of which was earned in the June quarter. From 1931 through July 1936 the Steel Corporation paid out nearly $175,000,000 more than it took in, even though no dividends were declared on the common stock and the preferred dividend was pared from $7 to $2 per share. In the June quarter this year the preferred dividend was fully earned, with enough left over to show earnings...
...each by King Edward and Queen Mary to head subscriptions to the King George Memorial Fund for children's play places. June 13 surprise visit with Minister of Labor Ernest Brown ("The Man With the Loudest Voice in the House of Commons") to training centres at Slough and Acton where jobless British men are being taught to become mechanics, painters, hotel waiters and hairdressers...
...prevailed two years ago, the average Freshman was forced to take courses in which he was treated as inconsequential, he had no conception of what the Union Committee was supposed to do, and the almost total absence of guidance through the opening mysteries of Harvard left him in a slough of Despair from which many of his fellows failed to emerge...
...early collaborator, onetime friend and longtime enemy, George Moore. To Lady Gregory, Yeats owed not simply a colleague's loyalty but a more personal debt. When he was a young man of 30 and she a widow of 45 they met, and she rescued him from the slough of "a miserable love affair" by taking him around to peasants' cottages, setting him to collect their folklore. She kept lending him money so that he could write what and how he pleased. Till he was nearly 50, Yeats's writing never brought him in more than...