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...last night only 20 per cent of the men had been seen, and, as it is desirable to end the drive Thursday night, the canvassing must "receive a decided boost...
...will, over the recent weekend, have approached near the 100 percent mark, so that comparatively little canvassing will remain for the last stage of the drive. But judging from the preliminary reports received from the dormitory chairmen on last Saturday, the canvass in the College must receive a decided boost, if the 100 percent goal is to be reached within the next two days. It is therefore urged that all who can subscribe today in order that the first dormitory reports compiled tonight be as complete as possible...
...employers and employees in the particular business in which the improvement is installed. During the reign of free competition in the nineteenth century it was generally assumed that the employer had a right to all the profit he could make. Faced by a mass of competitors he could not boost the price and thereby make the public pay. But with the growth of organized labor came a demand from the workers that all payment should be at a standard rate, and hence that the profit on inventions should be solely theirs...
...Pennsylvania State College, also, the military authorities have issued an order that all members of the S. A. T. C. must participate in some form of out-door sport. As a result, a large majority of the men chose football, thereby giving that sport a great boost in the college. Baseball received second choice, and tennis, third choice, as shown by the number of men that came out for each...
...Both Yale and Princeton intend to do the boost they can with the facilities that exist in order to build up a crew, and with good sport as a guiding star, to enter as many events as is compatible with economy and the endurance of the oarsmen. The crews will probably not have a formal training table, although supervision of food will be given, and work in military science and rowing on alternate days will take care of the men's condition...