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...bank, are based upon the latter figure. Unfortunately the people still refer to the new bills as worth 1,000,000 rubles because they rate on a par with old bills of that denomination. But the authorities hope that when the old bills are called in, the populace will adopt the face value as the current rating. By this ingenious expedient the internal debt will be reduced ten thousand-fold...
...difficult to say what turn the language will take next. Perhaps the rest of the country will follow the example of the people in a small, secluded New Hampshire village where alone W. L. George found correct pronunciation, and with them adopt once more old with them adopt once more old Elizabethan wages...
...percent enrollment has been procured. Of course it is true this Louvain Library is generally regarded as an estimable project and that most American colleges have already rather freely contributed to it. Yet, when a drive proves vexatious and troublesome (as is always the case), Harvard students adopt the only intelligent attitude-they ignore...
ITHACA, New York, May 12. Sentiment among the delegates of the Eastern intercollegiate Newspaper Association at its annual conference here today is strongly opposed to over emphasis being placed on football. If is expected that the conference will adopt a resolution in regard to the football situation at the meeting tomorrow, and a joint editorial policy on the question by the newspapers represented will very likely be the outcome. Over 20 colleges are represented...
...most important thing for him to have is a spirit of open-mindedness. He must not adopt any one side of a question until he has soon all the facts, and that is impossible until he has been engaged in an industry for at least two or three years. He must not take the side of the employer, nor of the employee, before he knows all the facts about both. It has often been said that there is nothing more illiberal than some liberals. The reason for this is that they have lost their open-mindedness, and become intolerant...