Word: discounts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best fulfills the requirements for successful leadership. This is decided advantage in the case of Freshman teams, which are composed of men who hall from various preparatory schools and consequently are not thoroughly acquainted with one another. A premium is now placed on ability to lead and a discount on mere popularity, while at the same time no harm is done to the man who is both popular and able. Other Freshman teams would do well to copy the crew in this regard...
...college has clearly seen that the Freshman sorely needs friendly advice at the beginning of the year. Accordingly it has adopted the systems of faculty and senior advisers. The effect of these systems, however, can only be superficial. A student in apt to discount the advice of an instructor because he is a representative of the faculty. Moreover, it is a very difficult thing for a faculty adviser to help a student about whom he has known nothing until a study card is presented for his signature...
...Oettinger implies that he is capable of gaining political enlightenment from "any of several national publications of positive merits," and this carries with it the implication that he is capable of selecting just such publications. Presumably he knows precisely how to discount the influence of the editorial policy that, to the casual observer, has seemed to align most of the national publications of positive merit with one or another of the political parties, and to subject them to the influences of that party...
This is exactly what lies at the root of the farmer's demands to the Federal Reserve Board to discount their warehouse, receipts. They wish to hold their grain for a better market, and thus keep prices up. Of course falling values in farm produce make it hard for the farmer; but it is no harder for him than for all other producers whose commodities are also falling...
...Great Britain against this country. After the Gerry bill it would indeed be surprising if there were not some hostile feeling against this country. Unfortunately, however, Mr. McSweeney cites several passages from Horatio Bottomely's "John Bull." The recollection that Bottomely is the Hearst of England is sufficient to discount these passages to their negligible value...