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...ramshackle old cow barn with its dirt floor. To protect the 70 cows from flies there were electrically-charged copper screens. When a fly tried to get through the ½in. openings, there was a little flash, a ping -and the dead fly fell into a metal trough at the bottom of the window. Each cow had its individual drinking fountain, which spouted water when nuzzled. Cows were cooled by electric fans, clipped by electric razors, milked by electric machines. The hay they ate was hoisted into the trough by electric motors. The milk they gave was immediately electrically cooled...
...president is largely one of husbandry. The faculty supervises the breeding of strong academic stock. Rich friends and alumni see that stock is materially nourished. The president, however, must exercise constant broad vigilance lest the flock's young and the flock's runts be driven from the trough and starve. Surveying James Rowland Angell's 15 years in the President's office in Woodbridge Hall, the most acquisitive Yale alumnus cannot quibble at the tremendous wealth that has fallen to Yale. Since taking office. President Angell has doubled...
...President Angell, this is the growth he calls "dramatic." It is not without significance that Yale College, the undergraduate school, got its turn at the trough last. One reason is that the College itself, largely home-ruled, resisted change. Another is that James Angell is not deeply impressed by Yale College either as a parcel of ancient traditions or as a seat of learning. Even now his eye wanders when visitors babble about the almost flagrant picturesqueness of the acres of neo-Gothic and neo-Colonial stone and brick with which some $60,000,000 of Edward Stephen Harkness...
...distribute Michigan's Federal jobs through the regular Party organization, handing patronage instead to such political parvenus as Father Coughlin, Democrat Comstock last week announced his resignation from the Party. Cried he: "The Hogskis and the O'Piggys, in their scramble for jobs, have upset the trough...
...junk," explained Captain Kilkenny last week, "is duck-shaped rather than fish-shaped, so it can plunge into the trough of a wave and rise again almost vertically without shipping water...