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...instead of the community assuming this important function, it left it to private initiative, as has already been explained at some length. Despite nearly a century of experience, had we been willing to heed it, we have almost ignored our moving streets--our transit lines. We have permitted private capital to exploit our transit necessity, and we have gone on planning foot transit street systems during all this time, and wondered since we were doing what we had been doing from the beginning, why the population did not spread out at once to all of the new areas opened...
...street-corner statesman, who possibly ranks with the arm-chair philosopher as the supreme function-head of knowledge in all affairs of this earth, is raising his voice with increasing vociferousness to demand, "Why doesn't the Government take over the coal mines?" The fifth week of the coal strike has not pinched him personally, but it seems to him that the whole thing could be adjusted satisfactorily for everybody by having Uncle Sam just take hold and operate the mines. Thus easily dismissed, the coal strike shrinks away to a back place...
...with being the real pioneer was the firm of George P. Rowell & Company which was established in 1865 in New York City," said Mr. H. K. McCann, President of the McCann Advertising Agency of New York City, in a recent interview for the CRIMSON on the origin, organization and function of the advertising agency in modern business. "This agency secured rate cards from newspapers all over the country and made some effort to appraise advertising values. It was the first agency that was equipped to recommend to an advertiser a list of the publications he should use, and able...
...advertiser to advise with the company as to the need for advertising--when, where and how much advertising shall be done, and of what type it shall be. When the agency and the advertiser have jointly determined on a policy, an advertising plan is prepared, and it is the function of the advertising agency to carry out this plan in all its details...
...conventions" will be added to the college curriculum for some time to come. Truly, the Columbia undergraduates would be the laughing-stock of the college world not to mention the general public were he forced to undergo instruction in how to handle a tea-cup, introduce at a formal function, and dress correctly for afternoon calling. "Columbia Spectator...