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...closed with an oversubscription of about $100,000,000. Thus the Treasury bonds with the lowest rate of interest which has been offered since the War were disposed of, and the question of how to meet the greater part of some $615,000,000 worth of Treasury notes which fell due on March 15, was settled. Some bankers felt that the Treasury was rash in making a longterm, low-interest offering, but the results proved the offer was well timed...
...meant absolute destitution and starvation wages Even on the old basis the average wage for able-bodied men ranged from $15 to $22 a week. Only a very few highly skilled operators such as the loomfixers received more than $25. Their number is insignificant. The vast majority of workers fell below $20 a week. It must be borne in mind that these workers are heads of families which average about six. Even a smaller family could not be maintained on such a wage...
...knows the elements of composition. Yet in cases of deficiency, in default of specific allegation, he must make a more or less general review of rhetorical principles To confront him with his actual written errors and thus to remind him also of the specific conditions under which he fell into the faults, would be more efficacious and take much less time. Under the present guarded procedure, this is impossible. A change in the Committee's rules upon this point would benefit both general academic frankness and rhetorical improvement...
...students at the Baptist co-educational University of Rochester (N. Y.) defied the heavens. There was, they had decided, no God. They were atheists. And it was important that the world know this. They publicly proclaimed themselves "damned souls," and waited for the heavens to fall. But the heavens fell not. Nor did the waters rise and the thunder rumble and the lightning strike them in their tracks. Not so much as a slip of paper from the dean's office fluttered down upon them. Though they proclaimed that the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism, Inc. (Freeman Hapgood...
YOUNG WOODLEY?A study of the sex troubles of an English schoolboy who fell in love with a faculty wife...