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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These operating expenditures show an increase of more than $1,000,000 over the preceeding 12 months. On the other hand, money paid from income from athletic sports, and the expenses dependent upon operating income showed a reduction...
...contemporary local interest to Boston readers is the comment upon the suppression in Boston by a "smug" society of an early edition of "Leaves of Grass" Speaking of this society Mr. Morris has this to say: "They had probably understood nothing of the text but those passages which they alleged to be objectionable. Thus the guest of Emerson and Sanborn and the finest and purest men and women of Boston and Concord, the friend of Tennyson and Longfellow, and of Mrs. Gilchrist was found unclean by an anonymous group who were unqualified to receive the rich message he brought them...
...system is a complex one. The actual nominating is done by members of a student council committee from the floor in mass meeting of the class. A preliminary vote is taken upon the nominees; the three winners are then submitted to an elimination count which decides the election. The advantage of the method is to reach all sections of the class. The situation in which many a voter finds all the nominees are strangers to him cannot arise...
...election of the committee which supervises the annual junior class dance. In the future at Yale all elections for committees in charge of traditional activities must muster two-thirds of the class as voters if the custom is to be continued. The ruling provides both a check upon undergraduate feeling toward the custom and a means of eliminating it if interest is lacking...
When a newspaper forages through its news calendar, seizes whatever news it can find or rehash, throws an edition into print and out upon the streets ahead of competitors, that edition is a "bulldog" edition. Chicago's Herald & Examiner ("Herex") publishes a "bulldog" edition on Sunday afternoons. Last week this edition carried a story about one Rocco Maggio, badman. "Herex" said Maggio would stand trial next day on a statutory (sex) offense against a 14-year-old girl whom he had since married...