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...poetical over your swell editorial on the Eliot House tutors' table...
...listening to the tales of oldtime racketeers in Leavenworth Penitentiary. In another room the officers found Mrs. Kelly, 29, disguised in a red wig, her face bearing the telltale scar of a blow her husband once gave her. "We've been celebrating our third anniversary," she explained. "A swell celebration! Just swell...
Naturally the question of bucking the government does not enter in, since the ruling on college exemption frees Harvard from any definite obligation. The theory of this exemption is simply that the more youths are absorbed by educational institutions, the fewer there are to swell the still formidable ranks of the unemployed. Adherence to NRA dictates, in the vast majority of colleges, would immediately result in stepping up tuition, board, and room rents, thereby forcing some students to drop out and preventing others from entering...
...financial security and to prevent unnecessary discouragement and strain to the impecunious, the colleges must squarely set themselves to investigate the ability of applicants to meet the necessary expenses of their support. Those who will obviously require more assistance than the college can provide should not be permitted to swell the queues at the doors of harassed employment offices, merely through an inappropriate delicacy and a vague feeling that democracy should be vindicated...
...what she preached, he added, was disrupting his home life. On his first free night before looking for another job. Chauffeur St. George went to a wrestling match with onetime Secretary of Labor William Nuckles Doak whom he had driven for three years. Said he: "There's one swell guy! He never had anybody work 17 hours...