Word: circularity
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...Professor A. S. Dewing '02, lies not in the written books that it contains, but in the other miscellaneous material. The present group contains copies of railroad mortgages, debentures, reorganization agreements, corporation reports, reports of the various railroad commissions, listing applications of the New York Stock Exchange, equipment agreements, circular offerings of bond and investment companies, newspaper clippings about steel companies, insurance companies, water and gas companies, mining promotions, industrial corporations and public utilities, court decisions, reports of defunct railroads and some original briefs of cases affecting corporations...
...Harvard Golf Association is planning to make this match the opening move in its campaign for $150,000 to build a Harvard University golf course. H. K. Clay '24, President of the Association, is also planning to send a circular letter to all Harvard graduates who are known to take an interest in golf. This letter will set forward the need of a University golf course and will ask for contributions toward the sum needed to build...
Christefer Morley, in his column in the New York "Evening Post", comments upon a circular which was sent to him by a contrib, advertising the wares of the Public Speakers Society of Harrisburg, puhl, Mr. Morley does not mention the competition which the society offers to public speaking course in colleges, but we must prognosticate upon the threat which arises from the fact that the Society has prepared 220 speeches for all occasions. Where is any need for taking a course which (supposedly) teaches one to think on one's feet, when all that is necessary is memorizing...
This is certainly a splendid idea; stocked with a battery of such speeches, anyone ought to be a leader in his community, as the circular says. And we inevitably link up such inspiring information with the story of Blenkinson J. Smith, commented on in the same paper. This gentleman-whose name, incidentally, reminds us of J. Throckmorton Cush's we leave to the imagination possible similarities implied by both having J. as initial-but, as we were saying, Mr. Smith is reported to have committed in one day more sins than are recorded in a week's series of book...
Early in the fall a financial canvass was made of students in the Law School by means of a circular letter, with the result the $387 was collected. This makes the Society self-supporting...