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...this?"Parliament," "M.P.'s," "Constitution"?is the ripe product of eight years spent in creating "what the worker wants" by Sir Eric Campbell Geddes, astute, experienced, intelligent Chairman of Dunlop's board...
...Said Sir Eric: "We now have a council chamber that is at once a monument to what has been accomplished and a symbol of future harmony. ... In the bad old days in industry, before the round-the-table idea had taken root, operatives knew nothing and cared less about the difficulties of management. ... It is not too much to say that the increasing cooperation of our operatives has been a most important factor in steering this organization into smoother financial waters...
...stories of the Crusades. About 100 years ago leather cue tips; stone table beds; and rubber cushions clustered to change the game. In 1854 one Michael Phelan contrived an improved cushion; became first U. S. champion. Many masters have succeeded him. Today great players are Edouard Horemans, Belgium; Eric Hagenlacher, Germany; Kinrey Matsuyama, Japan; Felix Grange, France; William Hoppe, Welker Cochran, Jacob Schaefer...
...lectures to be given by Professor Eric R. D. Maclagan, Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University for the current year, are to be continued during the second half year: the dates and subjects are as follows...
...show his accustomed insight; always he manages with complete mastery a theme that many an inferior novelist has fumbled. But though his book is better than the run of schoolboy novels, it never quite loses the taint of sugary superficiality that has lingered in all such works since Eric, or Little by Little...