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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although the same events affect the Canadian manufacturers, five of them last week attacked the situation by merging. Canadian Woolens and its subsidiaries, Milton Spinning Mills and Otonabee Mills, with R. Forbes Co. and its subsidiaries, Orillia Worsted Co., were the parties to an agreement whereby a new company-Dominion Woolens & Worsteds Ltd.-will assume control of all. President of the Dominion Woolens & Worsteds is A. O. Dawson of Montreal, who has been Canadian Woolens' president...
...carry it too far. All I want to point out is that many of the important decisions in life are by no means evidently momentous at the time. The right and wrong of the choice may be clear, but not the seriousness of the consequences involved; because they affect not so much the outward career of the actor as his own personal character, and the result may not be manifest for a long time...
Increasing the membership of any organization is indicative of one of two trends. Either the group is slipping down hill and needs reinforcements, new blood, and the strength of numbers, or it is coming to have additional value and power which a slight loss in exclusiveness does not affect. In the particular case of Phi Beta Kappa, however, there is a third element in the increase in eligible candidates...
This may not affect the argument but I thought it might be interesting...
...encountered from the University of Southern California, with Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, and Cornell also counting heavily in the scoring. The injury of Charles Borah on May 5, which kept him out of strenuous training for ten days, has opened possibilities in the dash events which may considerably affect the total of the Southern California team. Such men as A. E. French '29, and T. F. Mason '30, who both did 9 and 4-5 seconds in the 100 last Saturday, will give Borah trouble in the century unless he is in top notch condition...