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...Alumni Association. These names are then nominated by postal service and are finally voted upon at Commencement by those alumni who are in Cambridge on that day. The disadvantage of this rule is that many alumni, eligible to vote, are unable to do so, because they do not happen to attend the Commencement exercises...
...Conditions today", he said, "are entirely different from any that have faced the business men of the present generation, and there is a great deal of uncertainty about what is going to happen next. The last few years have seen a lot of prosperity with the consequent extravagance attendant upon it. This has brought the expected reaction during the last few months, when we have had a period of depression. During this period business has been conducted chiefly on hearsay, and there has been a great deal of seatteration of authority, of 'passing the buck' when it came to making...
...same time there are many questions which naturally arise. What will happen to British prestige in the East when agitators spread the tale that the empire was forced to buy off Russia? What will happen to British influence in Russia if the Bolshevists should fall from power? England's Russian policy has certainly been to play both ends against the middle. But whatever the future may bring forth, Lloyd George will no doubt have a solution and will sign more pacts to straighten matters out. He has been in tight places before, and he, has always been able...
Most of you can remember watching candidates for your school teams. Perhaps some of you concluded that certain men had little chance to make the team, but before your Senior year, some of these doubtful ones surprised you. We have seen the same thing happen right here at Harvard, and provided we can get enough candidates for the team, we feel that we can make teams here...
...estimated that seventy percent of industrial accidents happen to persons requiring an interpreter in filing their claims, many of whom are unable to read a danger signal or safety sign; $250,000 is reckoned as the daily cost of these accidents. In the draft, nearly one-third of the picked manhood of the country was ineligible for service due to incapacity to understand the most elementary instruction...