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More than 8,000 Iowans praised the performance, drove away humming I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls and Then You'll Remember Me. A match for the singing was the ingenuity shown in the homemade costumes. A wine-colored cape had once been a feather tick. Old lace curtains had been doctored beyond recognition. The barefooted "gypsies" shook pie-plate tambourines, wore chicken-feed sacking which had been dyed yellow and scarlet, trimmed with bits of shiny tin. Average cost per costume...
...Freeport and C. O. Ellis of Grayville. Watchdogs Hitchner & Ellis sniff out academic extravagance, then send pamphlets about it to Illinois newspapers and taxpayers. Recently they pounced upon Professor Alvin Robert Cahn of the Zoology Department, told how he spent the summer of 1932 in northern Minnesota investigating a tick which infested the moose of that region. Pamphleteers Hitchner & Ellis scornfully "estimated" that "this louse hunter" spent $12,000 of Illinois money in the interests of Minnesota moose...
...charge did nothing to heal the wounded pride of Zoologist Cahn. Whatever the moose louse meant to Pamphleteers Hitchner & Ellis, it was no joke to the moose. Large numbers of the animals had lost their hair, died. Dr. Cahn spent his vacation and his own money to identify the tick. Although his own University had not contributed a penny, the National Research Council had thought the work important enough to make him a small grant. The more Dr. Cahn thought about it, the more furious he became. Last week he sued Pamphleteers Hitchner & Ellis for $25,000 damages...
...Princeton men rioted three days because chapel prayers were too long, got them cut by one-third. Last week the Daily Princetonian reported that Princeton men now rudely talk, read newspapers, play tick-tack-toe and salvo during Sunday services in their new $2,000,000 chapel. Excitedly launched was a campaign against "forced, hypocritical and disinterested'' chapel attendance, compulsory every other Sunday...
...fall on reluctant ears, and are thus wasted. The fact that attendance has grown may or may not be indicative of an increasing interest in religion, but it at least substantiates the claim that Harvard's Chapel services mean far more than Princeton's, wherein men read newspapers, play tick-tack-toe, and snore, through sheer boredom...