How to Keep in Touch After You\u27ve Graduated

A long, solemn, black-clad line treads slowly across a stage. A solemn, black-clad figure behind the pulpit in the center of the stage hands each black-clad unit in this black-clad line a neat, white cylinder, -and it\u27s all over but the shouting, or the weeping. That, Seniors and others, is graduation

Is the Picnic Basket Packed?

One good whiff of tangy, spring breeze is enough to send men scurrying for telephones and coeds for picnic baskets and tweed skirts. It is a debatable question whether it is the call of the wild or the call of the appetite that brings on the rush of youth to the woods and a campfire as soon as the snow melts from the ground

A Few Apples a Day...

What well-meaning mother has not worn a wrinkle in her brow wondering what under the shining sun to put on that dining room table next! Before she ponders and fusses too long she may happen to think of that cheery and versatile fruit, the apple, and the day is saved

Faith in the Future and Social Conflict: Economic Growth as a Mechanism for Political Stabilization

This paper studies the mechanisms that link sociopolitical conflict and (expectations about) economic prosperity. Motivated by a large body of empirical and historical work on the correlation between economic development and democratization, I develop a game-theoretic model of economic growth with political economy constraints. In an economy where low income agents are credit constrained, rapid and robust economic growth leads to increasing inequality early on, but provides the means to mitigate civil conflict when inequality becomes sufficiently large. The rate and persistence of growth similarly determines the stability of extant political institutions and the ability to transition from dictatorship to democracy.Honors Thesi

The Iowa Homemaker vol.13, no.2

Grads Are Optimistic… By Ruth Cook Let’s Have Something New… By Dorothy Bloedel Dust Has Dangers… By Lucille Oak Do Your Duty… By Gretchen Prout

The Iowa Homemaker vol.12, no.8

Cook With Iowa Lard… By Ella Gertrude McMullen If You Would Have Shining Locks… By Virginia Rowe A Few Apples a Day… By Dorothy Bloedel If It’s Good It Will Sell… By Hazel Bec