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...strict proportion should be as valuable as the first and which in theory should be even more so, is only a repetition of the beginning, then it is unnecessary and undosirable. The probabilities are, however, that the present length of the course is the proper one, but the fault lies in inefficient arrangement of material. Whatever is the cause, Mr. Baker's and Mr. Ziegler's endowments are certainly a means to correction. The standard of excellence which Mr. Baker asked be maintained allows no room for periods of turgidity...
...seen that particular reasons, among them the location of the Union itself and the isolated position of the rooms used for club tables, were as much to be blamed as actual absence of need. Next the device of circulating a petition was tried and then dropped. But the fault here, similarly, was quite obviously in the manner of circulating the petition rather than in any more significant cause. It will be remembered, among other things, that Freshmen alone were approached...
...results of these investigations encourage the belief that there are now available materials for glazing our windows which do not possess the fault of window glass in excluding the health-giving rays of sunlight. A comparatively small amount of exposure to sunlight, even during the winter months, at the latitude of Boston has a decidedly beneficial effect...
...practice and the store may lose on the deal, but the loss is compensated by keeping the others satisfied." Because two years ago 12% of gross volume of department store sales was returned by dissatisfied customers, the University of Pittsburgh is conducting research to learn just who is at fault-customer or merchant. Data so far accumulated indicates that one is wrong as often as the other...
George Ade, perhaps by no fault of his own, has not yet become a member of the Harvard faculty. Among his many golden truths is the often quoted aphorism that "they all look good when they're far away." To nothing in Cambridge does this apply more forcefully than to the Lampoon. In its own office, and among all Harvard men everywhere, is a tradition that once upon a time the Lampoon was a perfectly side-splitting paper...