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Are Smith heads intellectually above Vassar? How about Bryn Mawr and Radcliffe?
Are the legs of Vassar and Wellesley ladies longer or shorter than those of Smith College students? Is physical exercise more prevalent at Vassar and Wellesley than Smith, and if so how many millimeters larger are the calves of these young ladies than their rivals at Smith?
It is rumored that over 100 men at Harvard, and 200 at Columbia, take anthropology courses and all are especially trained in making anthropometric tables. There are something over 500 institutions in this country devoted exclusively to the education of young ladies. Thus does science progress!
CALEB CABOT
Andover, Mass.
"Crafty Priest"
Sirs:
In TIME, Oct. 7, in mentioning the former Prime Minister of Austria, Monsignore Seipel, you had to use the words "crafty priest." As I know the gentleman personally, I cannot for the life of me understand on what you based your right to this insinuation. Perhaps it is due to the loose and superficial manner of many journalists when they approach anything pertaining to the old Church, utterly disregarding the ordinary obligations of man to man; it should be discarded.
MICHAEL F. GIRTEX Chicago, Ill.
TIME eschews such expressions as "crafty priest," referred instead to "that crafty cleric, bald, eagle-beaked, ex-Chancellor Ignaz Seipel."
Everyone who knows Austria knows that the statesman-Monsignore is her most astute, most potent politico, dominating the Christian Socialist (majority) party, making and unmaking cabinets. He has twice made himself Chancellor (Prime Minister).—Ed.
What Bakers Discuss
Sirs:
Your issue Oct. 7, p. 54.
"American Bakers Association discussed doughnut week, crackers in shape of States."
Error.
We did not discuss doughnut week.
State-shaped cookies used as scenery only.
We did— 1) Recall that:—Food is not subject to consumptionism (stomach only holds three pints).
2) Reflect that:—You cannot increase the consumption of a good by lowering its price (low price=:cheap atmosphere=low esteem).
3) Realize that:—Most price pressure is brought to bear upon food (price pressure in cities = price depression on farms).
4) Recount that:—Place of bread in the diet is changing due to changing eating and buying habits.
5) Reason that:—Rules of Business Conduct are necessary to preserve stabilized conditions and to prevent lopsided prosperity within the Industry (we have four one-sentence rules).
6) Resolve that:—Correct analysis, thorough study, full consideration on all of above are necessary in preparation for a National Advertising Campaign on Bakery Products.
HENRY STUDE President
American Bakers Association Chicago, Ill.
"Don't, Bacilli"
Sirs:
Russian kisses bearing 40,000 germs apiece (TIME, Oct. 21) recall Kieth Preston's pun. Young lad), on being approached with osculation in mind, replies, "Don't, bacilli.''
HAROLD B. LONG
Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Episcopalian Key
Sirs: