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...affairs but also for the success with which he has sold them, recently informed the investing public who subscribed to his "service," that the time had come to purchase stocks for investment. Scarcely had this statement been printed and placed in his subscribers' hands, along with the delightful chart inked in many colors which usually accompanies such admonitions, when the stock market began a violent relapse which lasted for over two weeks, and carried stock prices down to the lowest levels of the year...
...detail the ensuing plot with accuracy would take diagrams, a genealogical chart and reams of paper. But here the plot is not exactly of primary importance - the characters overwhelm it with their energy, their eccentricity and, at times, their excessvie gift for lengthy self-analysis. They are the book...
...first Aerial Dreadnought is being built for the British Air Ministry. Some of its main features include living quarters, electric illumination, an electric capstan controlling a 125-pound anchor, two water-tight transverse bulkheads, sleeping quarters for five, a chart room...
...chart accompanied the report, showing the occupations into which Harvard graduates have gone during the past 25 years, indicating a decrease in the proportion of men entering the ministry, and a rapid increase of men going into business, this latter increase appearing "to have been made in part at the expense of medicine, but chiefly of law and education." The decrease of those entering the ministry President Lowell spoke of as "a source of great regret," adding that it "is the more notable because it does not appear to accompany any progressive diminution of religious feeling among the undergraduates...
...most striking fact that appears in the chart is the large proportion, and rapid increase, of graduates who go into commercial and industrial pursuits. In 1896 it was thirty-five per cent of the class, and rose to over fifty-five per cent in 1916. This is in itself by no means undesirable. That the men engaged in business affairs, and especially those who occupy positions of great power and responsibility, should have a broad education and a large outlook on life, is altogether for the advantage of the nation. Perhaps our colleges could do no better work than forming...