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Real Wages. "Economic research and social work are as characteristic of Western civilization as Ford cars, chain stores, radio sets, talking pictures, and tabloid papers with screaming headlines. Social workers seem more like engineers planning to reclaim a swamp than zealots trying to convert the heathen."?Dr. Wesley Clair Mitchell, director of research at the National Bureau of Economic Re-search and chairman of President Hoover's Research Committee on Social Trends. He observed that the record of earnings for the 19th and 20th Centuries in England and the U. S. has been one of alternating gains and losses...
Phil Baker plays snatches on a glittering accordion and bandies old gags and a very few new ones with his fat comic in an upper box. Aileen Stanley croons sundry ballads in the ultra-modulated, effortless manner. Most talented member of the troupe is Wesley Pierce, whose name does not appear in upper case type with the other headliners, but who thoroughly ingratiates himself with audiences by making difficult feats of acrobatic dancing look easy, by singing inane songs pleasingly, by looking cheerfully funny. There are also 44 personable chorus girls, of whom more is to be seen than...
...Karl Taylor Compton, retired chairman of Princeton's Physics Department, was inducted as the eleventh president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. By his side stood Samuel Wesley Stratton, who turned over the presidency to become chairman of the Executive Board and Corporation. Excerpt from President Compton's inaugural: "There is a very real danger, for industry is competing with universities for the best men, often taking them and then perhaps later finding fault with the institution for not giving its students a first-class training. ... The industries must, for their own ultimate self-interest...
Freshman track--numerals to: G. F. Bennett, Richard Borden, A. N. Davison, N. P. Dodge, Capt., A Foote, Alfred Kidder, H. F. Kollmyer, Peter Shuebruk, R. P. Wesley, B. P. Rogers, Manager, and Hamilton Young, Asst. Manager...
...Billings prize for improvement of delivery, in the Theological School, was this year divided between Richard Hurst Hill 2E.T.S., of Knoxville, Maryland, and Wesley Goodson Nicholson 3E.T.S., of Cambridge...